My first GUI program when I was much younger was a VB6 program. Haven't touched it since then so I'd imagine it would take a fair effort to get up to scratch...Can you write VB? then you are almost there :^) Ok if all your images are defined in the stylesheet (rarely the case)... another alternative i've tried is to make a low-res version of all your images, then buffer the entire page into a variable and do a replace on all ".jpg" with "_low.jpg" and gifs etc... (filter in jsp, ob_start with php or cfsavecontent with coldfusion)... somebody probably has a better way though.Meanwhile I am sitting here making a template for a CMS-driven site browser-detect so it can spit out nice, compliant, accessible pages for most folks and a text version for the rest (client said "give up on N4" <g>), Next they want high/low bandwidth versions, methinks the zengarden style is the way to go :-) Back to XAML: I guess from an ubiquitous computing point view the blurring between application, web application and web page is inevitable. The application server industry is building up steam and I'm sure they will be pushing a similar technology, and my bet is it'll be XAML rather than XUL (i wish it was the other way around!). These technologies conjure up dreams where you don't have to launch all these separate 'applications' to do what you have to do... the computer interface moulds itself to allow you to do the tasks you wish to do, whether it be read an email, look up some information (on the web or otherwise), converse on a newsgroup, instant message a friend, post on a private/public diary... I wish MS would agree on (instead of declaring) a common base architecture with the rest of the world... Longhorn would not doubt be the most advanced application using that architecture, which would still give them the market lead they lust for. MS write some great and useful stuff for the business world. If only they would let the rest of the world join the game... - tim p.s. Looks like we have two definitions of XAML (i was waiting for an ML acronym clash!): http://longhornblogs.com/rdawson/posts/496.aspx and http://itmanagement.webopedia.com/TERM/T/Transaction_Authority_Markup_Language.html Kym Kovan spoke the following wise words on 25/10/2003 1:48 PM EST:
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