Hello,
The slide deck for yesterday's VanDev talk titled
"The Future of the Web: Rich Clients, Rich Browsers,
Rich Portals - Beyond HTML: A Look at Markup Languages
For Creating Rich "Classic Desktop-Style"
Applications" by Gerald Bauer are now available
online.
The content includes:
o Why Rich Clients? Why Rich Browsers? Isn't Dynamic
HTML (aka HTML, DOM, JavaScript) enough?
o One Language Can't Do It All: Beyond Hairballs and
Spaghetti Code
o What is XUL?
o XUL Vision
o Lines of Code Benchmark: MFC vs. WindowsForms vs.
XUL
o XUL Architecture - Beyond Hairballs and Spaghetti
Code
o XML is not ... / The "Golden Hammer" Fallacy
o XUL Tag Sampling
o First Impression - XUL In Action - Counter Example
o Man vs. Machine - XUL (XML UI Language) vs.
General All-Purpose XML Formats
o First Impression - XAML In Action - Forms
o What is XAML?
o Lines of Code Benchmark: XAML vs. C#
o XAML Widget Tag Sampling - XUL-like Tags
o XAML Box Layout Tags (aka Panels)
o XAML (Hyper)Text Tag Sampling - HTML-like Tags
o XAML 2D Graphics Tag Sampling - SVG-like Tags
o XAML Styling Sample
o Second Impression - XUL In Action - Calculator
Example
o Third Impression - XUL In Action - Alternative
Calculator Example
o The XUL/XUI/XAML Naming Debate
o XML UI Languages & Acronyms Abound
o Why are there so many XUL/XML UI formats?
o Industry Giants At Work
o What about the W3C?
o HTML 5- Web Hypertext Application Technology
(WHAT) Working Group (WG)
o The Five Freedoms of the XUL Charter
o Internet Explorer Is Dead - The Next Browser Is
Windows 2006 Itself
o Quotes From the Microsoft Avalon Team
o The Commercial Web vs. the Hippie Web
o Amazon.com Case Study - Will Amazon.com Adopt
XAML?
o Google.com Case Study - Will Google.com Adopt
XAML?
o Reach vs. Rich - HTML vs XAML - Web vs. Windows
o That's it - The Future Just Happened
Appendix
o XUL Grand Coding Challenge 2004
- XForms, Thinlet, Flex, SwiXml, xWidglets, ...
o What is MyXAML?
- XAML-Friendly, Markup-Friendly .NET Libraries
- XAML-Friendly .NET Library Case Stu
More @
http://xul.sourceforge.net/talk/vandev-feb-2005/slides.html
- Gerald
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