Re: XUL/XUI/XUIL/XML-UI - It's Your Choice

Matthew Raymond <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.xul.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Laurent Jouanneau wrote:
> Mozilla.org claims that XUL IS a trademark :
> http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing.html

    In that case, use of XUL as a generic term is clearly a violation of 
trademark.

> And i confirm : the use of XUL term for other technologies than 
> Mozilla's XML user interface language, cause confusion for newbies who 
> discover http://xul.sourceforge.net site... Some xulfr.org users wrote 
> it to me by email...

    Yeah, when I was developing my XUL Basic suggestion for the WHAT WG 
mailing list, I personally had a hard time finding info on software that 
supported subsets of XUL because of its misuse. It was rather irritating.

> Well, why don't we use XML-UIL ? ;-)

    Great! We could call it XUIL for short! ;)

    How about Extensible Markup Application Interface Language?



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