On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Gerald Bauer wrote: > > Ian "Hixie" Hickson claimed a while ago here on xul-talk that Mozilla > XUL is an open standard and language and because Mozilla's code base is > open source there's no need whatsoever for any competition or > independent Mozilla XUL compatible code base or initiatives such as the > Open XUL Alliance.
You are (again) wildly misunderstanding what I've tried to explain. XUL is open, in that the runtime is free software. XUL doesn't _need_ competition, in that any efforts made by people working on a competing product could be put to better use simply making the existing XUL runtime better. XUL is proprietary, in that it isn't a standard, and is controlled by a single vendor, namely the Mozilla community. > | This specification is independent of the various proprietary UI > | languages that various vendors provide. > > PS: I guess Ian cansomehow not bring himself to write XML UI languages > instead of UI languages. I once again ask you, what has XML got to do with anything? Avalon isn't an XML language, Flash isn't an XML language, Z isn't an XML language, and so on and so forth. Why would I limit my statement to XML languages? Doing so would be silly. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
