Hi- mobiform wrote: | [...Miguel de Icaza:] | Longhorn has kind of a scary technology called Avalon, | which when compounded with another technology called XAML, | it's fairly dangerous. And the reason is that they've | made it so it's basically an HTML replacement. | The advantage is it's probably as easy as writing HTML, | so that means that anybody can produce this content | with a text editor. | | So we see that as a very big danger. A lot of people today | cannot migrate to Linux or cannot migrate to Mozilla because a lot | of their internal Web sites happen to use IE extensions. | Now imagine a world where you can only use XAML. | | It's massive - I'm so scared
Don't be scared, Miguel... WICD (a killer combination of SVG and XHTML) will be much more familiar to more authors, and as an open standard, will be far more widespread in terms of multiple browser/OS support... it will even run on phones. You needn't fear XAML. (For what it's worth, "wicked" sounds much cooler than "zammel", too. :) I do agree that XAML is attempting to threaten the stability and openness of the Web, though... thanks for pointing that out, Ron. We all need to be diligent in promoting open standards. As usual, MS will embrace and extend the work of others, and will try to cash in on FUD; luckily, Apple, Mozilla, and various standards bodies (both commercial mobile concerns and government organizations) are building on and standing by W3C standards rather than succumb to Microsoft's manipulations. Regards- Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
