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Hello, allow me to hightlight the latest news about XUL (XML UI Language) from Windows-land. * Microsoft Publishes Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML) For Today's .Net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft has published an article by Joe Stegman (Windows Forms Team Member) titled "Using Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML)" at the Official Windows Forms Propaganda site, that is, windowsforms.net Joe writes: Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML) provides an extensible mechanism to add a markup model on top of an existing .NET Framework object model. WFMLs parsing rules can be summarized as XML elements map to .NET Framework types and XML attributes map to Type properties (or events). This sample includes a WFML parser that dynamically generates an object instance tree from an XML file in WFML format. WFML includes declarative constructs for the following: More @ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/277 * MyXAML - BSD-Licensed Open Source XUL Motor For Today's Windows.Net Now Live ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Clifton (a C# hacker from Rhode Island) has kicked off a new open-source BSD-licensed project over at tigris.org titled MyXAML chartered to create a XAML-style markup language and toolbox that lets you build UIs for today's .Net using XML. Marc writes: Interested in participating in the development of this technology? Join the open-source project @ myxaml.tigris.org This project is NOT intended to emulate Longhorn's markup language (code named XAML) nor the MSAvalon namespace. Rather, MyXAML supports namespaces without using a DOM backbone, instead using the property setters defined in the namespace classes directly. Marc is not all talk but has already a prototype up and running and ready for download. More @ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/278 Is XUL Mania breaking loose in Windows-land? - Gerald PS: As a bonus allow me to highlight three more XUL News Wire stories from the parallel universe. * Edd Dumbill: What next for GNOME's user interface? How about XUL? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Edd Dumbill (of O'Reilly XML.com fame) has written up a blog story titled "What next for GNOME's user interface?" that offers insight and options on how the Free World can respond to Microsoft's upcoming all-in-one Windows-only next-gen XHTML3/XUL3/SVG3/CSS3/PDF3 markup language. Edd writes about [W3C] XForms: More @ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/271 * Chief Mozilla Architect Brendan Eich Talks About Mozilla's Future ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Eich (Chief Mozilla Architect) has posted the slides from last week's Mozilla Developer Day talk titled "Mozilla Futures: Analysis and Proposals". Brendan Eich kicks off the talk with a strategic outlook: More @ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/270 * Poll Results: The Most Used Free Java XUL Toolkits - And The Champion Is... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to everybody for casting your vote in the Java Republic online poll asking: "What Java XUL Toolkit Do You Use Most?". Now on to the award ceremony and the winner is... More @ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xul.announce/276 ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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