Moonlight flicks
04.Mar.2008
Miguel has a good status update on Moonlight. Complementing that I recorded a few simple demos presenting current state of our Moonlight trunk.
While talking to friends at FOSDEM I noticed that while everybody pretty much heard about Moonlight/Silverlight, not so many people have actually seen it in action. This is understandable – at the moment building Moon from source is not trivial. Hopefully those little videos will help a little.
Microsoft showcase – a website collecting links to various Silverlight-enabled pages and web apps. Users can browse sites and rate them. Built with Xaml and Javascript. Watch demo / Download high-res avi.
Podium – A dynamic mashup of various news related to US election candidates. Shows some more advanced text-flowing and formatting capabilities. Again – Xaml and Javascript. Watch demo / Download high-res avi.
Surfaces – A very simple surface manipulation/D&D example. Clutter has a similiar demo. Watch demo / Download high-res avi.
This is only a small selection of Silverlight-enabled sites which was easier to record (ie. not using media playback). A bigger list we use for testing is available at Moonlight 1.0 test sites.
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After a compilathon I’ve managed to get moonlight running. Though most sites just display a “please install silverlight” message. How did you work around this? Some sites such as http://bubblemark.com/silverlight_clr.htm, are working fine.
@greg: It’s a known (random) problem. Try installing Firebug for ffox, it usually helps.
on clutter and surface manipulation: would you know which specific file that example is in?
@jon: That’s the one:
http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/clutter/trunk/toys/table/
Demo here:
http://www.clutter-project.org/blog/index.php?paged=3
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