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Re: Microsoft Hypes Up XUL As The Greatest Expiriment SinceAda

• To: Gerald Bauer <luxorxul@y...>
• Subject: Re: Microsoft Hypes Up XUL As The Greatest Expiriment SinceAdam And Eve
• From: Oleg Tkachenko <oleg@t...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:17:12 +0200
• Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
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• Organization: Multiconn Technologies
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Gerald Bauer wrote:

>   Well, my point was that Microsoft doesn't care about
> standards and blissfully ignores CSS and reinvents the
> wheel to take full control.

Full control over building Windows GUI apps? :)
Come on, then they wouldn't make it XMLish. I believe that's different 
issue. First of all it's completely along the line of existing practice 
of XML design in MSFT, recall WordML as notable example.
AFAIK XAML is supposed to be generated/transformed/interpreted/compiled 
into binary representation or IL code. From this point of view defining 
presentation in CSS syntax seems to be unreasonable as both generating 
CSS and transforming it is troublesome with the tool everyone is 
thinking about - XSLT 1.0. XSL-FO approach seems to be much better.
Unfortunately they didn't make another step forward - to move 
presentation attributes into a different namespace, just like OpenOffice 
XML does.
-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

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