You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, guys.
I for one appreciate:
1. the presence of somebody from Adobe here
2. that the Linux version was released promptly
I'd like to thank everybody at Adobe for the above.
Yeah right. Many developers have only ever worked in a predominantly Microsoft environment and check their code by bouncing it off Microsoft's implementation. If Moonlight (the Linux implementation) differs in even the slightest way from Silverlight (even if it's just a little stricter about the standard) it will be alien to such developers and will face the same uphill battle that Firefox did in getting web devs to write portable standards compliant code.
Now contrast that with the way Adobe and Sun are so careful to make sure Flash Player and Java are as identical as possible between operating systems. It's more foolproof for developers who don't know or care about other platforms and portability. And therefore better for Linux and Mac users.
Since 9 was released, all the Flash I've encountered on the internet has worked perfectly on Linux. Given Microsoft's history and the imperfect level of compatibility between .Net and Mono, I don't think it's realistic to expect the same with Silverlight.
I for one appreciate:
1. the presence of somebody from Adobe here
2. that the Linux version was released promptly
I'd like to thank everybody at Adobe for the above.
Originally posted by deanjo
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Now contrast that with the way Adobe and Sun are so careful to make sure Flash Player and Java are as identical as possible between operating systems. It's more foolproof for developers who don't know or care about other platforms and portability. And therefore better for Linux and Mac users.
Since 9 was released, all the Flash I've encountered on the internet has worked perfectly on Linux. Given Microsoft's history and the imperfect level of compatibility between .Net and Mono, I don't think it's realistic to expect the same with Silverlight.
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