Re: WHAT WG Spokesman Declares Mozilla XUL a proprietary language - Comments?

Huh?

Does XUL welcome external patches? How can something that's
proprietary do so? And what does external patches have to do with
competition?

Well, I'll play along. Since MyXaml is open source, you can patch it
to your heart's content. In fact, you probably don't need to patch it
since the parser is designed to allow complete extensibility of the XML
simply by implementing your own assemblies. You can also add custom
property handlers for existing class implementations, thus extending
the functionality of a class even if you don't have the source code!

Marc

Ian Hickson wrote:

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Charles Goodwin wrote:

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:27 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:

XUL doesn't _need_ competition, in that any efforts made by people working
on a competing product could be put to better use simply making the
existing XUL runtime better.

What a coincidence! Vexi doesn't need competition either, and any
efforts made by people on a competing product could be put to better use
simply making the existing Vexi runtime better!

Correct, assuming Vexi welcomes external patches.

What's that Marc? MyXAML doesn't need competition either, and any
efforts made by people on a competing product could be put to better use
simply making the existing MyXAML runtime better? Oh!

Also correct, assuming the same thing.

I could go on. That's a bit of a silly comment really Ian.

Why?

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