Hello, >> 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).
XAML is many formats in one package (e.g. XAML replaces HTML (web documents), Flash (vector web animations), PDF (printable documents), and so on). XAML works for web UIs, of course. As far as I can rember Microsoft show off a Amazon XAML demo at the Longhorn developer conference last fall in Los Angeles. The next web browser is not Internet Explorer anymore but Windows Longhorn itself. > 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. Looks like a good choice. Maybe your styling format needs a compact non-XML syntax alternative? > 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. Again, the standalone browser is dead. In the new world the desktop OS is the browser. > So, what's the worry? Well, my worry is that because the next browser is the desktop OS you will also get DRM (digital right management) e.g. for every XAML "web" page you can state if anyone is allowed to print it and how much it will cost you, to cut-and-paste or look at your markup code, to save it, when it expires, and so on. DRM per se is not evil but when Microsoft controls the desktop they surely can and will abuse it to nickel and dime you to death, for example. - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
