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RE: Why I Like Longhorn and XAML

• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Why I Like Longhorn and XAML
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:53:18 -0600

Wait a minute.  They also enable us to serialize objects 
we control.  That is what extensible means.  That they do 
it with CLR implemented languages only makes sense from 
their perspective.  Better than the HTML straitjacket 
and waiting for results to come from committees controlled 
elsewhere with agendas that may not have anything to do with 
the businesses we are in.

As I said, enough standards to be polite but not enough 
to turn us into roadkill.  We need room to experiment out 
here in middle tier land because we keep getting schemas 
and other artifacts that are not that useful to us.  This 
opens up room to implement at the layer where we need it.

len


From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]

mlk@k... (Mike Kozlowski) writes:
>That's really nothing like XHTML, XForms, or SVG; and I don't see a
>straightforward way to adapt those technologies to Microsoft's purpose.

Uh, yeah.  That reinforces my point.  Microsoft seems to see XML as a
wonderful format for serializing object structures they control, rather
than as any kind of commons where shared formats are exchange.

No single part of XAML is about replacing particular structures, but the
project as a whole is a breathtaking land-grab with a veneer of tasty
XML openness.

On the bright side, they also seem to have discarded W3C XML Schema in
favor of WinFS, probably because there wasn't a "straightforward way to
adapt those technologies to Microsoft's purpose."

That one I can sympathize with.

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