Hello, allow me to highligh the comments posted by dennisj in response to Brendan Eich's (Mozilla Chief Architect) blog story titled "Action and Reaction".
dennisj writes: What bothers me is that there doesn't exist a dedicated XUL section on mozilla.org yet and even more that no "pure" XUL runtime has been released so far. Everybody is talking about XUL as an alternative platform to XAML but I don't see it that way. XUL right now is just a part of the browser known as Firefox/Mozilla. Why do I have to install a browser to run a XUL-based application even if I have no interest in using that browser? I know that this is more a case of how this platform is perceived but unless you can give developers a reason to think of XUL as more than just a Firefox "add-on" I just don't see how you want to compete with XAML (which *will* become a huge standard simply because of MSs sheer deployment power resulting from it's broad base). Even the XUL tutorial doesn't seem to be up to date with current developments as I had to follow some of the user comments to make my first XUL app work and that tutorial seems to be the only source of good documentation right now. XUL really needs to stand on it's own legs if it is supposed to become relevant in any way. Source: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/005370.html What's your take on it? Do you agree that Mozilla's XUL is just a Firefox "add-on" and not relevant in any way as long as its bound to the Mozilla machinery? What's your take on the "pure" XUL runtime? Why hasn't Mozilla released anything so far? - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- 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-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
