On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, F Baube wrote:
>
> Is there actually any ISO or IETF or W3C standard about XUL ?

The W3C is actively working on related standards. For example:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms

..and various other specifications that have not yet reached the public
working draft state.


> If not, then most of this argumentation is probably useless spinning of
> wheels.  To each his own, XUL-wise.

The argument is simply that the term "XUL" only means "XUL", as in the
language used by Mozilla, not any XML User Interface Language (that would
be "XUIL").

There is obviously no reason that people should not use their own
declarative UI language, and indeed there is no reason to restrict the
discussion to XML-based solutions. As I have mentioned before, the "Z"
language was in use in the early 1970s and is just as much a declarative
UI language as any of the solutions (such as XWT, XUL or XAML) that are
being developed today. (Some people would even question whether XML is a
good language to use when designing UI.)

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