On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Gerald Bauer wrote: > > Also note that I stress XML in the UI language because XML at its best > is vendor neutral, language independent and operating system > independent. Also XML at its best is just data and thus clearly > separates the code from the markup in contrast to lets say Java, C# or > Tcl/Tk.
There's nothing about XML that makes it more vendor neutral, language independent and operating system independent than, say, C++. It's a meta-format -- anything, including vendor-specific, language-dependent, operating-system-dependent markup -- can be written in XML. For example the Java compiler could use XML as its bytecode output format, if it really wanted to (vendor- and language- specific XML). And XAML is an XML language (vendor- and operating system- specific XML). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
