Hello Paul, Thanks for posting your opinion on the XUL saga.
> I am confident that we will be forced to standardize > to compete. It looks like the W3C is slowly awaking. For example, the W3C posted a call for participation just a couple of days ago for a workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents. See http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/index.html If I may quote from the workshop page: Web Applications With the ubiquity of Web browsers and Web document formats across a range of platforms and devices, many developers are using the Web as a platform-independent application environment. Examples of Web applications include reservation systems, online shopping or auction sites, games, multimedia applications, calendars, maps, chat applications, clocks, interactive design applications, stock tickers, currency converters and data entry/display systems. Over the past several years a number of different technologies have targeted application development on the Web. However, much of the work in this area has been proprietary and platform specific. Web applications typically have some form of programmatic control, either on the client, on the server or a combination of both. This workshop addresses client-side Web applications only. They may run within the browser, or within another host application. A Web application is typically downloaded on demand each time it is "executed", allowing a developer to update the application for all users when needed. Web applications are usually smaller than regular desktop applications, and can have rich graphical interactive interfaces. - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
