Software update: Moonlight 2.0 preview 3

The developers behind Mono, an open source implementation of the .Net Framework, have been working on Moonlight since 2007: an open source implementation of Microsoft’s silver light for Linux. It is available as a plugin for Mozilla Firefox in both 32bit and 64bit versions. Mono recently released the third preview of Moonlight 2.0 with the following list of changes:

Preview 3

• a number of name and static resource related exceptions have been quashed, so a number of sites work a lot better.
• smooth streaming should be working now.
• the silverlight toolkit site is working.

Preview 2

• fixes everywhere, including parsing and managed runtime type fixes.
• work on template instantiation with ItemsControl and its subclasses.
• work progressing on ToggleRef implementation. we’re still leaking, but not for long.
• TextBox now has input method support.
• Fixed some infinite loop conditions in text layout.
• TemplateBindings are now created in managed code instead of unmanaged, and are exposed with ReadLocalValue.
• Lots of speedups due to caching TLS lookups we do often.
• Python web idea works