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At 04:47 PM 2/4/99 -0000, Mark Birbeck wrote: >Nigel Hutchison wrote: >> If there was a set of C++ classes that interpreted it and >> built up a GUI >> with the same look and feel, that might be useful. >> Then a server could project its own GUI api and leave it to >> the client side >> to choose C++, Java etc to build the interface at run time. >> I suspect that >> in most cases the bandwidth required to shift the XML GUI >> description would >> be quite a bit less than the >> compiled java classes. If this is so than "Even Cooler" would >> be XML GUI >> interpreter built into a Internet Browser. >> >> But am I running too far with this one? > >Great idea. Can I suggest we call it HTML? I knew you would say that. :-) > >(OK I know I've cracked that one already - it's the end of the week. But >really, if you want an XML specification for a user interface, surely >HTML 4.0 is the one to choose. Then you could use a 'cool browser' that >has an "XML GUI Interpreter" built in - like, well, IE4 and Netscape 4.) > The trouble is that HTML 4.0 + Dynamic HTML + IE4 + Netscape (with back buttons etc) still doesn't quite cut the mustard as far as GUI interfaces are concerned. You can get some good effects if you put a lot of work in but is not very portable or robust. I would also like my GUI interface to have reasonable session control as well. Current browsers are very dodgy when it comes to sessions. I do get SSL for free. But if I use Java applets I get the other extreme. I have to code the GUI in Java, and upload the GUI code, and the security and encryption classes etc and hope it will work on Netscape and Microsoft browsers. regards Nigel Hutchison Nigel W. O. Hutchison Technical Consultant Software AG Germany mailto:nwoh@s... Tel +49 (0)6151 92 1207 * xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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