Hello, Alexander de Landgraaf from Amsterdam has kicked off a new project called FopSpeen with the tagline "rich client web applications for the masses". Alexander writes:
Much has been said about XUL, however it isn't gaining marketshare or developers. Lack of documentation is often stated, but this isn't the case as there are a few books already written some time ago about how XUL fits together. The problem is that if you would make an application in XUL, it would only work on browsers that are made in it. Yes, you may use Firefox/Mozilla (as does the author), however the rest of your office might still use IE. Getting them to switch just so they could use your application wouldn't fly with management. And we haven't even started about getting all the external users of your application to switch. It just won't fly in the forseeable future. Give us a small flexible plugin for other browsers and it might work, but it still isn't very likely. The right way would be to take the XUL specification, and have these generated natively for your desktop, regardless of toolkit. KaXul is an interesting project focussed on KDE, but it has been laying dormant for quite some time. gDesklets comes close for GTK/Gnome desktops and uses Python. Remeber that FopSpeen should strive to integrate as much of work from other projects as possible: bindings to native desktops and scripting languages are prime canidates. More @ http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/FopSpeen What's your take on it? Is Alexander on to something? - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer XUL Alliance | http://xul.sourceforge.net United XAML | http://xaml.sourceforge.net The Thinlet World | http://thinlet.blog-city.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
