> What's your take on it? Is Avalon XAML better than
the plain old HTML+CSS alternative?
Isn't that sort of mixing apples and oranges? Avalon XAML isn't just for
web UI's. (Actually, does it even work for web UI's? I haven't seen
anything to suggest that it does. Maybe I'm missing something here).
On non-web UI's, we've needed styles for a long time. But I'm not too happy
with the Avalon-XAML implementation. To handle the style definition, you
need a sub-parser, because, after all, markup like this:
<TextPanel>
<TextPanel.Resources>
<Style>
<Button Foreground="green" />
</Style>
</TextPanel.Resources>
<Button>This text will be green also</Button>
</TextPanel>
Changes the meaning of the <Button...> element from "instantiate a button"
to "set the style for the typeof(Button)". That's stupid, IMHO. With
MyXaml, you write:
<Style def:Name='XP'>
<StyleProperties>
<PropertyStyle FlatStyle='System'/>
</StyleProperties>
</Style>
Which I'm considering modifying to the following:
<Style def:Name='XP'>
<StyleProperties>
<PropertyStyle Class="Button" FlatStyle='System'/>
</StyleProperties>
</Style>
This is consistent with the "a tag maps to a class" and doesn't confuse the
reader (yet again) as to the meaning of the element.
But, back to the question. The comparison doesn't seem appropriate to me,
until I see a browser parsing XAML, *without* needing a 20MB .NET framework
behind it for the client side controls that runs only on one OS.
And I really don't see the benefit of a dumbed down client experience
because I want both web and non-web apps to look the same from the same
markup file. Nor do I want a dumbed down web experience because I want to
use server side XAML. ASP.NET only goes so far. In my dabbling with
ASP.NET, doing anything useful requires client side controls and Javascript.
So, what's the worry?
Marc
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