Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Jixor - Stephen I wrote:
I have previously encountered XUL but only just started to look into
it. I have found it so far (only worked with it for one day) to be
really interesting. I was wondering what other wsg members thought of
it and maybe if they could give me some background or forecast
regarding the tech, will it be superseded, is it still in
development, etc.
What I found most interesting is the fact that there is a lot of XUL
markup which is squarely presentational in nature. After a long time
striving for semantic XHTML markup with separate presentation in CSS,
it feels like a huge step backwards being expected to mix it around
like it's 1996 again. I try to make a point of personal discipline to
apply the same strict sense of separation of content and presentation
in my XUL, as if it was any other standards-based web site.
However, I fear this topic is beyond the scope of the web standards
list (as it's, of course, not a W3C standard), so I think I'll leave
it at that now...
Yep, that has been my main problem with it also. However I don't
consider it as much of an issue as for html design. The XUL is for
describing the application interface not styling it. Of course due to
shortcomings of its css implementation there seems to be many things
that you can only do by applying properties to the tags themselves. That
said its not like they can't just add properties to the css standard.
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