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Re: Microsoft Hypes Up XUL As The Greatest Expiriment Since Ad

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• Subject: Re: Microsoft Hypes Up XUL As The Greatest Expiriment Since Adam And Eve
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:00:38 -0500
• In-reply-to: <p06002003bbc448c7f802@[192.168.254.4]>

elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
>The examples of XUL and XAML presented here both mix presentation 
>information directly with the markup. Neither is superior in this 
>regard. Thus, to the extent that CSS is directly embedded in the 
>structure here, for good or bad, XAML's syntax is more appropriate 
>than XUL's.

I disagree.  Even in the case of the style attribute, I'm happier to see
presentation information segregated than I am to see "more appropriate"
XML syntax.

Even in XML documents, XML syntax isn't always appropriate, for a wide
variety of reasons.

In this particular case, I see Microsoft crushing yet another standard
it doesn't control and doesn't much like, so I have even less sympathy
for the argument than usual.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org

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