Re: [xul-announce] XML.com Article: Mozilla and Opera Renew the Browser Battle

On Jun 16, 2004, at 7:03 PM, Gerald Bauer wrote:

>   O'Reilly's XML.com site has published an article
> titled "Mozilla and Opera Renew the Browser Battle" by
> Kendall Grant Clark that covers the W3C's workshop on
> web apps and compound documents and the new WHAT WG
> spinoff.
>
>   Full story @
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/06/16/deviant.html
>
>  Of course, as usual the RICHIE (RICH Internet for
> Everyone) initiative gets ignored. Thank you.

Please explain to me how you feel that an article highlighting the 
working group between Mozilla and Opera should have mentioned anything 
other than the main parties involved and their intended goals? Why 
should the work of two organisations, both of which produce and 
maintain the market's most innovative browsers and web platforms, be 
compared with a collection of mailing lists? I describe RICHIE/Open XUL 
Alliance as such, because that is essentially what it is: announcement 
lists announcing other lists for this, that and the other UI that uses 
XML (of which there are many, more every week).

You tend to draw flack from developers, and not limited to those who 
believe there.is.only.xul. I can understand that, to you, the acronym 
"XUL" covers any XML-based UI language, but the term belongs as a 
Mozilla technology and anything that confuses XUL with other languages 
only serves to devalue the hard work and perseverance put into the 
Mozilla platform. Nuff said.

If you have renamed to RICHIE, I wish you luck with that course of 
action. If the aim of RICHIE is to raise awareness of various pieces of 
software that use XML to render their UI, then such a resource is of 
limited value, yet useful nonetheless: a category on dmoz.org perhaps. 
Otherwise, the aim of RICHIE is not clear - is it published? I would 
like to understand what it is that is being ignored and please don't 
spin me "RICHIE exists to do the same thing, just different" because I 
can not draw comparisons between that and the WHATWG.

/dave

buzzword, n: The fly in the ointment of computer literacy.



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