Re: misleading term: "XUL Motor"

McMarkiss wrote:
> Hallo

Hello,

> 
> to Open-XUL-Alliance Founders:
> 
> I think the term XUL-Motor like the Open-XUL-Alliance uses it is 
> misleading because XUL is Mozillas XML Userinterface Language. So in my 
> opinion Mozilla is a XUL-Motor with XUL for describing GUIs and Gecko as 
> XUL-Generator/ XUL-Renderer.
> A lot of your Motors doesn't use Mozilla-XUL for GUI description and 
> include its own Generator/ Renderer. For example Xeotrope use XUI and 
> XUI-Framework. But there are also XUL-Generators/ XUL-Renderer like 
> jXUL, jzXUL, Sulu. By the way: XulParser is another XUL-Generator 
> (http://www.rj.pcblaze.com/rlksite/index.php/XUL_Parser)
> 
> I think you mean with XUL a XML based Userinterface Description in 
> general, but this is a little misleading and bad to handle in literature.
> If you want to establish the term Motor you have to think about your 
> definition.

You're right. But you have to know that this is a very very old debate, 
and you're not the first personn who point out that issue :-/

There was a try to find an other acronym to refer to an xml user 
interface language :

http://xul.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/NewXulName
http://xul.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/NewXulAllianceName

But any decision hasn't been taken.. in spite of the XUL term is a 
trademark of the Mozilla fundation

http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/faq.html
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html

I hope that Open-XUL-Alliance Founders will find a solution quickly, to 
stop the confusion in the head of beginners..

Laurent


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