Moonlight
Chrome and Moonlight, or how to deadlock a browser
It’s no secret that Moonlight works best on Firefox at the moment - it’s our baseline browser, after all - but we’ve had many requests to add Chrome support, and since it supports NPAPI just like all browsers out there, it should really work out of the box, requiring only some extra code to implement/hackify stuff that Chrome/WebKit doesn’t expose and that we need - basically, DOM support and some downloader tweaks.
New phone, Moonlight almost upon us and other little tidbits from the week
This week I got supremely frustrated with my phone(s). I have a very friendly Nokia 6288 which is unfortunately locked-in to Vodafone, and as some of you might know, I got a new phone number from a different operator, which means I can’t use my Nokia until I unlock it… and in this country, it’s not an easy thing to do. In the meantime, I have some unlocked phones, but they’re for emergencies only, really, when I’m travelling and just need to use a local card for a bit, not at all something that I would like to use on a regular basis. And I did try to use them, but it turns out I need a little more from a phone than what a Nokia Prism can provide… boy oh boy is that thing slow :PMoonlight shining on Ubuntu
This morning the first thing on the channel was the following excellent news, that I shall now reproduce directly as-read:
<directhex> it's official, moon binaries are now trivially installable on any ubuntu 9.04 system
<directhex> the 1-click url is [apt:moonlight-plugin-mozilla](apt:moonlight-plugin-mozilla)
Awesome stuff directhex, many thanks ot you and everyone else that helped shine a bit of moonlight on jaunty!
PS: directhex also noted that the build servers are busy building, so not all architectures might be available right now, just give it a bit of time :)