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}} Moonlight was a free and open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight for Linux and other Unix based operating systems, developed and abandoned by the Mono Project.〔 〕〔 〕 Like Silverlight, Moonlight was a web application framework which provided functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment. ==History and overview== In an interview in the beginning of June 2007, Miguel de Icaza said the Mono team expected to offer a ''feasibility "alpha" demo'' in mid-June 2007, with support for Mozilla Firefox on Linux by the end of the year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 the FASTforward blog: Expect a June demo of Silverlight on Linux, sans browser )〕 After a 21-day hacking spree by the Mono team (including Chris Toshok, Larry Ewing and Jeffrey Stedfast among others), a public demo was shown at Microsoft ReMIX conference in Paris, France on June 21, 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Miguel de Icaza )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Jeffrey Stedfast )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Chris Toshok )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Ars Technica )〕 However, in September 2007, developers still needed to install and compile a lot of Mono and Olive (the experimental Mono subproject for .NET 3.0 support) modules from the Mono SVN repository to be able to test Moonlight.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Moonlight: Getting started )〕 A Moonlight IDE, named Lunar Eclipse, exists in SVN for XAML designs. It is expected to be included or ported into MonoDevelop as an add-on in the future. Moonlight uses Cairo for rendering.〔(Moonlight Notes )〕 Moonlight was provided as a plugin for Firefox and Chrome on popular Linux distributions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Moonlight Supported Platforms )〕 The plugin itself does not include a media codec pack, but when the Moonlight plugin detects playable media it refers users to download a free Media codec pack from Microsoft. Moonlight 2.0 tracked the Silverlight 2.0 implementation. The first completed version, Moonlight 1.0, supporting Silverlight 1.0, was released 20 January 2009. Moonlight 2.0 was released on December 17, 2009. The Moonlight 2.0 release also contained some features of Silverlight 3 including a pluggable media framework which allowed Moonlight to work with pluggable open codecs, such as Theora and Dirac. Preview releases of Moonlight 4.0, targeting Silverlight 4 compatibility, were released in early 2011. In April 2011, the Moonlight team demonstrated Moonlight running on Android tablets and phones at the MIX11 Web Developers conference in Las Vegas. Shortly after the April 2011 release, Attachmate, parent to developer Mono, laid off an undisclosed number of Mono employees and announced a deal with startup Xamarin. At that time, Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman affirmed their commitment to the Moonlight project; however, there have been no outward signs of any further development since the new partnership. Their published road map is quite out of date and the previously active release schedule (including nightly builds) has completely ceased since the new partnership was formed. In December 2011 Miguel de Icaza announced that work on Moonlight had stopped with no future plans. He explained that, although there was always some bloat, complication and over-engineering in the Silverlight vision, Microsoft had "cut the air supply" to it by omitting cross-platform components, making it a web-only plugin, and including Windows-only features. He advised developers to separate user interface code from the rest of their application development to ensure "a great UI experience on every platform (Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and Web)" without being dependent on third party APIs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moonlight (runtime)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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