A Microsoft project supporting animation, graphics, interaction, and sound. Offers some relatively advanced features, and has some nice properties - for example, text in
MicrosoftSilverlight can be indexed.
One feature of
MicrosoftSilverlight: it offers alternatives to
JavaScript for manipulating
DocumentObjectModel. Both DLR and CLR languages are supported as of Silverlight 2.0.
IronRuby,
IronPython, JScript (Microsoft's
JavaScript), and
CeeSharp are named explicitly.
A related project, Mono's Moonlight, re-implements
MicrosoftSilverlight with some token support from Microsoft, but faces distribution challenges: anyone may download it from Novell, but only Novell may package Moonlight with a Linux distribution.
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