Moonlight

Microsoft released an application called Silverlight that permits web applications to be developed with features like animation, vector graphics and any audio-video playback that exemplifies rich Internet applications. Now this application has been inculcated with the Linux version named Moonlight. The application was developed to provide a rich competition to the Adobe’s Flash Player since the textual content in Silverlight is easier to search and it is far simpler for indexing purpose. Moonlight was released as a browser plug-in with the support of the software major. This is indeed an ingredient in the process of developing cross–platform tools. Moonlight is about to extend Silverlight’s terrain to open source operating system. Linux users are provided with the opportunity to download Moonlight. It is attuned with the Firefox browser although it is primarily built for developers.