[DC LoCo] thoughtful tech commentary at the washington post [silverlight]

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 05:52 AM, Phil Shapiro wrote:
>>      It's a relief that our local newspaper, the Washington Post, has
>> a thoughtful tech reporter.
>>
>>   see http://tinyurl.com/2ef4hxy
>
> I actually don't have a problem with Silverlight, as long as there's a
> free implementation of it (there is, Moonlight[1]).
>
> Silverlight provides a usable alternative to Oracle Java for web
> applications that cannot be written efficiently or effectively in
> JavaScript. It also has the benefit of being the first mass-market web
> browser plugin capable of allowing you to run a current Python version
> in the browser[2].
>
> [1]: http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
> [2]: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/silverlight/index.shtml
>

Isn't Silverlight Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash?

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