Extensible Application Markup Language - Criticism

Criticism

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems has said that Microsoft's use of XAML in its Silverlight product aims to introduce content on the World Wide Web that can only be accessed from the Windows platform. Using a plugin, XAML is viewable in some non-Microsoft browsers on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft provides direct support for Novell's development of a Silverlight viewer for GNU/Linux called Moonlight. As of January 2010, Moonlight 2 is a compatible implementation of Silverlight 2.

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