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Moonlight on Android
- SingAlong 16y agoFor those of you (like me) who didn't know about Moonlight, it's an opensource implementation of Silverlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
- DjDarkman 16y agoI fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.
- bad_user 16y agoSo apps on Windows Phone 7 are going to be built with HTML5?
- contextfree 16y agoWhy not? IE9 mobile even has new default styling to make websites better match the WP aesthetic.
- bad_user 15y agoI tried doing it for the iPhone (html/javascript, showed in a WebView) -- the experience was horrible for an interface that featured only a couple of text inputs and 2 buttons. And on Android it was even worse. Browsers for mobiles (WebKit mostly) are very buggy and even have extra restrictions that desktop browsers do not. I doubt they did a better job with the engine on WP7.
- DjDarkman 16y agoSo apps for WP7 are going to be built with Moonlight?
- jstedfast 16y agoMicrosoft announced Silverlight 5 beta at Mix11, so not as dead as you'd like to think it seems. Silverlight is still also very heavily used for intranet apps (which is where http://www.telerik.com/ http://www.telerik.com/ makes their money on Silverlight controls)
- kenjackson 16y agoDo you work for Telerik? Fan of their stuff.
- jstedfast 16y agoNope, I work for Novell on Moonlight. The Telerik guys do seem like pretty cool guys, though. I've emailed back and forth with one or two of them to try and debug Telerik controls running on Moonlight.
- DjDarkman 16y agoI didn't say dead, I said deprecated.
- gautaml 16y agoHTML5: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior.
- jrockway 16y agoYeah, HTML5 doesn't even cost money to develop!
- DjDarkman 16y agoSilverlight: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior. Then realizing that this cross-microsoft-platform wonder is just a bad flash imitation, then deprecating it saying that HTML5 is better.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoI wonder whether this would allow Netflix to more easily bring their streaming video service to Android...
- aplusbi 16y agoProbably not. Moonlight doesn't have the DRM necessary (and won't - MS has no intention of releasing it on Linux) and Netflix doesn't use Silverlight/MS DRM on phones anyway (AFAIK). From what I understand, on the iPhone/iPad Netflix uses the DRM built into the device. Since Android phones are built by several different manufacturers there is no uniformity in hardware DRM (and some phones don't have any at all). I imagine that it's easier to get content providers to agree to use hardware DRM than software DRM which further complicates the issue.
- jstedfast 16y agoWell, if that's the case (Netflix taking advantage of the DRM built into the phones), then there's no reason Moonlight for Android can't take advantage of that, too. Also, Microsoft has licensed their DRM for Linux on embedded devices in the past.
- aplusbi 16y agoYes, but since Netflix doesn't use Silverlight for the iPhone/iPad it's not like it's going to make a difference one way or another. MS has licensed their DRM, but they will not license it for use with Moonlight. From my understanding, the licensing they have done has generally for hardware (the NXP chip in the Roku box, for example).
- tzs 16y ago> MS has no intention of releasing it on Linux More likely it is the content owners who have no intention of licensing the DRM for Linux.
- bogomips 16y agoThere is no DRM in the hardware of the iPhone/iPad. It is absolutely no better than the worst Android device, and there are available cracks to rip Netflix streams on a jailbroken iOS device. However there is the illusion of security in that it is a supposedly closed system. As Android is arguably open, that illusion doesn't hold.