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Yep yep, totally agree.
I'm down with the Mono project, completely. But do they seriously intend to implement every single extension? MS isn't going to shy away from just trying something out, even with the possibility of it not succeeding. I mean, if Silverlight fails, no problem with MS.
Adoption may not happen, people might realize it's just Flash with .Net scripting ability -- which sounds an awful lot like Visual Basic on the client with WebClasses wrapped up in an OCX package, etc.
I'm assuming of course, that the Mono folks do have limited resources, and if that assumption is correct, that it might be better to focus on something that could help move the entire platform along. Let MS write the extensions for the Linux browsers, if being able to claim a "true" cross-platform alternative to Flash is really all that important to them.
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I think Microsoft said (paraphrasing) "We won't build a Linux Silverlight plugin but we will support someone who wants to build it." That is the impression I got from Mix '06 when WPF/e was announced.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Paul Watson wrote: We won't build a Linux Silverlight plugin
So they don't plan to build a cross-browser, cross-platform Silverlight plugin. Only the marketing people call it platform-independant. Microsoft writes the stuff for their own platforms and hopes on the community to do the "dirty job". It's always the same. 
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Well they did write the Mac OS X plugin for Safari and Firefox. And the Linux plugin looks like it will get done by the Mono guys. It is better than the usual Microsoft story.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Moonlight sound interesting, I'll have to give it a deeper look 
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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