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

• To: Gerald Bauer <luxorxul@y...>
• Subject: Re: Microsoft Hypes Up XUL As The Greatest Expiriment Since Adam And Eve
• From: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:46:10 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20031028004939.60923.qmail@w...>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:49:39PM -0500, Gerald Bauer wrote:
>    Now let's look what a button looks like in the
> "revolutionary" Microsoft XAML thingy:
> 
>    <Button Background="LightSeaGreen" FontSize="24pt">
>      Calculate
>    </Button> 
> 
>    Whow. Compared to the XUL version:
> 
>    <button label="Calculate" style="background:
> lightSeaGreen; font-size: 24pt" />
>        
>    This is truly revolutionary and a bold step for
> mankind. 

Well, I agree it's an improvement, although more an Evolution
than a Genesis ;-)

In general it's a bad idea to have user-visible content in attributes,
because you can't put markup inside attributes.
Consider (for example) needing something like
    Calculate d<sup>2</sup>:
or a possible need to mix right-to-left and left-to-right scripts
with markup to differentiate source languages.

Using CSS rather than ad-hoc attributes is probably better too
(but I am basing this only on a single example) although using
published property names from XSL/FO or SVG would be even better.

Best,

Liam

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