Hello, allow me to quote Ben Goodger's comments posted to Neal Deakin's poll asking "What do you think would most encourage more usage of XUL?"
Here we go: XUL as a high level widget toolkit for developing applications should not be standardized, as it would inevitably pass off innovation in the desktop application space to organizations detached from the details of developing applications on the various target platforms, and impede the rapid development of enhancements. Standardization is useful only insofar as specific items are to be implemented by multiple vendors. There are some elements of XUL for which this might be useful, e.g. flexible box, but far more for which this is not. Here is what is required: 1) A stable, complete, polished baseline tagset built on a combination standardized layout primitives (flexible-box) and proprietary solutions (e.g. Outliner-Tree) 2) A commitment to support (1) 3) A means to extend (1) in application-proprietary namespaces using technologies like XBL, canvas widgets etc. 4) A set of documentation for (1) that not only covers the API but the set of compromises that were made and the details that affect application development. No platform is perfect. There will be bugs and nuance. This should be documented to prevent frustration. 5) A libxul/XRE that implements (1) 6) An IDE to automate application development on top of (5), 7) A means to debug code in all pieces of a XUL application. Source: http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/article/218?show=c#comments Do you agree with Ben? Any thoughts? Any comments? I invite you to join the discussion on the mozilla-xul Yahoo! Group. See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mozilla-xul for details. - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Open XUL Alliance - A Rich Internet For Everyone | http://xul.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
