--- In [email protected], "Robert Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you look at it from a bigger picture (and I know the stacks are > getting pretty tall), these are all XML-based technologies. I think > there exists a class of data-driven applications that could be written > with both XAML and xH outputs. It's not an ideal solution by far, but > for some company that has a profit-driven business need to deliver an > RIA, separate XAML and xH front ends could be a real viable solution.
This is why I feel OpenLaszlo is a good option. It's an open-source higher-level XML-based application language that gets "compiled" into an output that a renderer understands. Laszlo currently supports Flash only as an output but they are working on supporting DHTML officially by the end of the year. My understanding is that XAML is another eventual output target and it would make sense for them to be including SVG into their "DHTML" (which you might want to call xH :P) output when SVG becomes more widely supported. My own personal opinion is that we should be moving up the stack. Having to work in roughly 3-6 different client-side languages/grammars (XHTML, CSS, XForms, SMIL, SVG, JavaScript) IS challenging, and I won't even touch the server side of things. Let someone else deal with levels of support and inconsistencies within renderers. Let someone else build the higher-level tools that we can use as application developers. That's what happened with Assembly to C/C++. In this movement, SVG still plays a very important piece (dynamic, interactive vector graphics that can be freely implemented by all) but it becomes a lower-level tool in your stack. Related blog entries: http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2005/12/15/putting-the-pieces-together/ http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2006/04/04/openlaszlo-to-support-dhtml/ ----- 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/
