Op woensdag 19 juli 2006 21:14, schreef Philippe Valembois - Phil: > > This is just a name collision. The XML2GUI that was to be designed by us > > is not the same as the one in the sum up. > > So there isn't any trouble if we do how we said some months ago : XML2GUI > (ours) to tie aMSN and the GUI engine... As the name suggests XML2GUI is a way to render a GUI as described in a XML file. So XULRunner is an example of an implementation of such a thing. 'Our' XML2GUI was an idea, not some part of code, even though there has been work (by me) on a piece of code to implement that idea, because I did not find a way to realize all of the XML2GUI idea with an existing solution. But while working on that I kept thinking about XULRunner (the best existing solution I had found), because it has a lot of very nice features (full CSS support for example) that would be very hard to do ourselves, and it already has backends for at least one good toolkit for each platform we want to support. So I retried to solve the issues that made me not choose XULRunner in the first place, and I finally found new information that proofed that such would be possible, so I decided to go with XULRunner, because it would fit our needs best.
If we would allow different XML2GUI implementations to be used with aMSN, the problem would be that in most cases their XML would not be the same format, and thus we would need different XML files for each, and also they will all require their own bindings to bind to the rest of aMSN. I think that would be a huge problem, so that's why I say: just choose 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
