Moonlight: turbocharged user experience

In this talk I’m going to present the current state of Moonlight (opensource Silverlight implementation), how it integrates with GNOME and how it can be used to spice-up existing gtk applications. A rough agenda for the talk is:

• The basics of Moonlight canvas, animations and multimedia
• Moonlight != Flash
• Example GTK moonlight app (planet gnome reader)
• Seamlessly embedding Moonlight in existing gtk applications
• Using XAML to separate the UI/theming from the code
• Why this separation is important for the designers and how much better it’s than existing gtkrc solutions
• Writing custom controls and reusing them
• Bridging javascript, C#, C and webkit
• Sharing codebase between webapps and standalone gnome desktop apps (example mashup application)
• Fine-tuning the performance
• Basic tricks for cool-looking, dynamic UI’s
• Future of Moonlight (GStreamer, better Gtk integration)

During the talk I’ll be presenting some live demos/eye-candy and sharing our vision of the future desktop applications integrated with the web (one canvas to rule them all).