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Re: Build interfaces with xml: XUL (cnet article)

Author:Jonathan Hendry
Posted:3/26/1999; 8:14:22 PM
Topic:Build interfaces with xml: XUL (cnet article)
Msg #:4582 (In response to 4580)
Prev/Next:4581 / 4583

Or NeXT's InterfaceBuilder, for that matter...

What's nicer about XUL is that it's ASCII.

I have one complaint. From the XUL article at mozilla.org, it looks like XUL will be OS-dependant.

From the page http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/languageSpec.html "the ability to put together an application by specifying something like this (for an application on an OS using menubars across the top of its applications' windows)"

It would be much better if there were no dependencies like this, and this were handled by an OS-specific style. This would allow you to use a single XUL file on multiple OSes. You'd just say 'menu', and the style would decide what kind of menu to use.

Ideally, you could have a PalmOS style which would express an XUL interface in a way suitable for a PalmPilot. The same XUL interface would look good on a Mac due to a Mac style.

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