[Mono-list] What features would be missed when developing

[Miguel de Icaza]

> > Of course it will get better over time. Mono's Moonlight may have
> > trouble keeping up unless WPF will be implemented in Mono at some point.

Everything in Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 will be available in Moonlight 1.0
and 1.1.

> > The main reason Mono's Moonlight works today is because there's only a
> > small amount of WPF functionality in Silverlight at this time. Unlike
> > the way Silverlight is implemented on Windows, Moonlight sits on top of
> > Mono on the client. So linux client machines need Mono in order to use
> > Moonlight.

You seem confused.

Silverlight on Windows is not implemented on top of WPF.   It is a
completely fresh implementation of the same API.

WPF is hardware accelerated, Silverlight is purely software driven, they
look similar from the basic XAML and API standpoint, but that is it.