Re: Re: Re: Have you looked at UIML?

> > > ....isn't XUL mozilla based? If so it would be
> hard
> > > to claim that it's a
> > > standard. If IE were pushing XUL that would be a
> > > more reasonable claim,
> > > but I'd just hate it :)
> > 
> >   No, XUL is like HTML and Mozilla is just one of
> many
> > XUL browsers/toolkits.
> 
> That doesn't mean XUL isn't Mozilla based. Just like
> PDF is Adobe
> based, even though there are several readers. A
> quote from a XUL intro
> from Mozilla:
> 
> ..  "zuul," as if that spelling helped any, and
short
> for "XML-based
>   User Interface Language") is our name for the
> language in which
>   these UI descriptions are built.
> 
> Veeery Mozilla-based. Not necessarily a bad thing,
> of course, but not
> a thing to deny.

  Mozilla was the first browser to use XUL, however,
that doesn't make XUL veeeeeeeeery Mozilla-based. It's
better to start with an implementation than dream up a
spec noone implements.

 I call Mozilla the granddaddy of XUL because the age
shows and Mozilla's XUL needs a clean-up to move
forward.

  - Gerald


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