XUL - Very clever, clean, concise, user-modifiable/skinnable, and a big win overall

Hello,

  for a change allow me to forward Stephen D. Williams
mail titled "XML API examples".

  Here we go:

  XML-based GUI interpreters are the way to go for the
long term, although it will take a while to
standardize.  All native GUI toolkits will likely be
left in the dust, including my favorite: QT and/or
KDE. Derived, IMHO, from TCL/TK, XUL and XAML along
with a couple cool Java applets are showing how
powerful this can be.

  This is essentially taking the idea of a web browser
and semantically pivoting it to supporting
XML+XSL+custom objects/methods/event handlers rather
than, or possibly in addition to HTML.  Very clever,
clean, concise, user-modifiable/skinnable, and a big
win overall for GUI programming.  I haven't yet found
a truly complete system however that supports
arbitrary 2D or 3D graphics, which is something I
need.


  Is Stephen D. Williams out of his mind? What's your
take on it?

  - Gerald

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