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zowie, xul and xaml!

In Uncategorized on 26 October 2003 with no comments

i’ve played with
xul

on and off
href="http://www.google.com/search?q=xul+site:snowdeal.org&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&filter=0">
over the years

and while it’s easy to see the potential of a markup language for
describing user interfaces, my general impression has been that it
has been languishing on the vine. i think there are a lot of
reasons for this not least of them is the fact that there are some
fairly big disincentives for learning and developing a
mozilla

-specific technology [ no offense intended ].

so i was a bit surprised to see that
apple

has put a little
href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2003_10.html#004257">
xul support

in safari 1.1 which comes with
panther

. and if that’s not enough, if looks like
microsoft

is putting together its own competing effort called
href="http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/24/microsoftsXUL">
xaml

, which is sure to create a brave new world of competing
implementations and cross-browser compatibility issues. href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/">dave shea does a good job of href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/10/24/ie_developme/">summarizing the stakes.

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