Microsoftie Declares MSXAML an OPEN LANGUAGE that is XML COMPLIANT.

Hello,

    allow me to highlight the comments by Joe Marini (Microsoft) that  
declares MSXAML as an open language.

    Joe writes:

   XAML is an OPEN LANGUAGE. It is XML COMPLIANT. How many times do I  
have to say it?

   Joe Marini also comments on Netscape XUL/Mozilla XUL. Joe writes:

   I’ve been in this business for FIFTEEN years. Let me tell you a  
secret: most of your “open standards” today started out as somebody’s  
attempt to create a proprietary technology that failed. Mozilla XUL  
started out as Netscape XUL, which was a PROPRIETARY invention  
intended originally only to run inside the Netscape browser and thus  
create Navigator lock-in. I know this because, see, I actually TALKED  
with Netscape AT LENGTH about this way back when I was on Dreamweaver  
and they wanted us to provide support for it.

  JavaScript ALSO started out as a PROPRIETARY Netscape invention,  
and was in fact called LiveScript originally until they decided to  
try and piggy-back off of Java’s momentum and renamed it JavaScript.

  Both of these technologies only became “open” when the business  
cases for keeping them closed collapsed, not because of any altruism  
on the part of the developers.

  CSS is nice for web pages, but the fact is that from an  
architectural viewpoint, it has so many structural problems that need  
addressing. You can’t extend it. It’s not compositional. I could go  
on and on.

  XAML is XML. PERIOD. We could have used a format that wasn’t an  
open W3C spec-compliant one, but we didn’t. It was important to us  
that we base it on an open W3C standard.

   Source: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/14/avalonxaml_f/ 
comments


   Do you agree with Microsoftie Joe Marini that MSXAML is an open  
language by the virtue that it's encoded in XML?

   - Gerald



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