On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Harry Vennik wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Yeah if you like XULRunner why not... I don't try to force using of TkHtml > > but I think (as it was said some months ago) that a multi-GUI soft would be > > great as you could use XULRunner and we could use TkHtml and with that we > > don't force user to use GTK or things like that... They can use other > > things... Phil > > > That is a very nice intention, I even share that intention, but we must have > one thing that will render the GUI using any toolkit, and XULRunner is the > only one I found that has support for multiple toolkits! > > You also want to offer multiple GUI rendering systems, but that will really > make it very hard to provide a Generic API for GUI (to be used from all TCL > code, Plugins included), and providing XML files that will satisfy both > renderes will be impossible. So really, this simply won't work! >
no, it should work, but if XML2GUI is written by our own staff, they should make sure that it is 100% compatible with amsn and can replace safely XULRunner... in the meantime, until it is developed, we can still use XULRunner... KKRT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
