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

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.xul.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 09:53 -0400, Gerald Bauer wrote:
>   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?

Nope.  He's talking about Vexi.  Only we're not just a Java applet.
Next release (in July) will have native binaries for Linux, Windows, and
MacOS X.  Which is why Vexi will succeed where other Java-only options
do not; Vexi will work out-of-the-box pretty much everywhere.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
Online @ www.charlietech.com



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