Hello,
if you missed out on the W3C Rich Client workshop
last week don't despair. Leigh Klotz has posted the
draft minutes for day one and two online.
Day 1 @
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps-cdf-discuss/2004Jun/att-0004/2004jun01.html
Day 2 @
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps-cdf-discuss/2004Jun/att-0004/2004jun02.html
On Day 1, for example, Steven Pemberton (chair of
the W3C XHTML and XForms working group) asks Alex
Hopmann (Microsoft):
Q: I have a lot of good friends in Microsoft and
this may sound aggressive, and I know Microsoft isn't
one monolithic organization, and I am really
interested in an answer. You said at the end of your
talk that the W3C should do decorative markups. But
when I look at XAML (little bits of it) and I see the
Vector Graphics language, you've renamed a few things,
but it seems pretty familiar and a lot like SVG. So my
question, is why should we listen to what Microsoft
thinks we should do?
Alex Hopmann: I was thinking of wearing a bull's-eye T
shirt... I decided to be upfront and open about our
plans, and I don't know if you believe it is the
truth, but I feel comfortable with it, but I present
the facts as I see them. Think for yourself and agree
or disagree. I expect a lot of disagreement; I have
been part of standards activities on the IETF. I have
seen places where attempts to create interoperability
are successful, some failures, and some middle ground.
I am trying to share experiences on that. We have
Avalon graphic primitives and there are some
similarities to SVG, but we go beyond the basic stuff
for interoperability and we are trying to push limits
with our 3D support. The core low-level rendering
system innovation is there if you dig deep. We took
the approach that XAML is direct mapping to objects.
For the basic stuff, other than XML specs for
well-formed and verifiable standard XML, we decided
not to use any existing standards, and we made a
decision that our priority in the design would be
support for direct mappings to the .NET objects.
As always you're more than welcome to discuss the
W3C Rich Client workshop on xul-talk (just change the
mail address from xul-announce to xul-talk before
posting. Thanks).
- Gerald
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