On 13/07/07, francois schnell <francois.schnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What I like about Python blogs is learning about the rest of the World
> as well  [1] ;)
>
> Since
> """
> Your search - site:lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/
> silverlight - did not match any documents.
> """
> I then just wanted to mention this link:
> http://vistasmalltalk.wordpress.com/tag/silverlight/
>
> a screenshot:
> http://vistascript.net/vistascript/data/silverlight/tests/smalltalk22.jpg
>
> Silverlight is the proprietary, closed source, technology form
> Microsoft which directly compete with Flash/Flex form Adobe (Flex
> 'engine' in now Open Source).
>
> That said one of the main advantage of Silverlight is the DLR (Dynamic
> Language Runtime) which support Python, Ruby (or whatever dynamic
> language you want to adapt on the DLR) directly on the browser side.
>
> Silverlight works in IE, Firefox and Safari (on Windows/OSX) and the
> Mono team is porting it to Linux:
> http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
>
> Silverlight 1.1 is still on an alpha stage and it shows on my XP box
> (the smalltalk example doesn't show me links, in the launcher window,
> but they work and I can play with objects and the simulated gravity).
>
> Never the less, because of the DLR, I believe the Silverlight plugin
> will have an important installed base in a few months/years so it is
> maybe another way for Smalltalk to spread more (beyond the Squeak
> Browser plugin user base).
>
> francois
>
Can't say i like this technology, especially which comes from
Microsoft. How about Spoon-based browser plugin? ;)
>
>
> [1] http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_07_07.shtml#e764
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>