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In a blog post this week, Novell VP Miguel de Icaza, who has been in charge of Moonlight and Mono projects, described the release as the first preview of Moonlight 3.0.
Capabilities include MP4 demuxer support, although there are no codecs for it yet unless a developer builds them from source code and configures Moonlight to pick up codecs from ffmpeg.
Also featured is initial work on UI virtualization and a platform abstraction layer. “The Moonlight core is now separated from the windowing system engine. This should make it possible for developers to port Moonlight that are not X11/Gtk+-centric,” de Icaza said.
The alpha release features 3.0 Binding/BindingExpression support and updates to APIs. An SVN (Subversion) of Silverlight 3.0 offers pixel shader support from developer David Reveman.
A beta version of Moonlight 3.0 is due this summer, followed by a final release in the fall, Novell said.
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