Hi,
The MozillaZine has posted an article about the XUL
Alliance Wiki Wiki Kick Off and sparked a discussion
about XUL.
Pierre Chanial - a PhD student from Paris - for
example, writes:
I am not sure if the self proclaimed "XUL alliance"
site deserves more advertizing, given that the
maintainer has already been asked to change the name
and declined. For him XUL = any XML-based UI language.
I fear it may dilute our XUL acronym and hamper its
recognition.
To which I respond:
Who Promotes XUL? The Mozilla Folks For Sure Not
> I fear it may dilute our XUL acronym and hamper
its recognition.
Ha. Face it. Besides some hard-core Mozilla junkies
pretty much nobody has ever heard about XUL. Why not
leave the childish bickering over who owns the XUL
ancronym behind us and let's instead work together to
promote XUL to create a rich internet for everyone.
Any takers?
PS: For some insight in the complete neglect Mozilla
folks show for XUL check out the XUL News Wire story
titled "New XUL "Portal" Now Live At Relaunched
Mozilla.org Site"
Jennifer Graham - a physics student from Cambrigde,
UK - writes:
The main contribution I've noticed is that he
[Gerald Bauer] goes around the web saying things like
"XUL is dead as long as it is tied to Mozilla", and
then goes on to mention some other XUL-like languages
(i.e. languages that have a similar syntax to XUL and,
in particular, use an XML dialect to describe the
interface) which are, as far as can tell, wholly
incompatible with Mozilla XUL.
I have no problem with other XUL-like languages
existing, but refering to them generically as XUL
because they have similar syntaxes is a bit like
lumping Javascript, C, C++ and Java together under the
name 'C' because they all have an over fondness for
curly braces and semicolons.
To which I respond:
Let's Work Together - Let's Grow The Pie Together
> XUL is dead as long as it is tied to Mozilla.
Just to clarify: The web is build on open
royality-free standards that are not bound to a single
vendor or browser. If Mozilla XUL is just a Microsoft
XAML-like wannabe, it's not going anywhere. Please
grow up and let's work together to build a rich
internet for everyone.
PS: For some insight about Microsoft XAML check out
the XUL News Wire story titled "Inside Redhell:
Microsoft XAML Blogger Round-Up
Join the discussion.
Full story @
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3998
- Gerald
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