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Weren't XAML and XUL supposed to be user interface markup languages ? Wikipedia thinks so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL

Weren't XAML and XUL supposed to be user interface markup languages ? Wikipedia thinks so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_...

tabtab 8y ago
If the "industry" adopts them as a standard, then they could take off (and if not encumbered by intellectual property lawsuit risk). XUL also looked "too Webby" to me, closer aligned to HTML than desktop-like GUI's.
- tomc1985 8y ago
  I'd beg to differ, XUL produced very clean native UI yet accepted styling with CSS years before I'd seen anything else like it. At the time I was writing Firefox addons and I was blown away but what I could do with it vs. WinForms or somesuch RIP XUL, you died too early
  - amyjess 8y ago
    FYI, XUL is being kept alive by the Pale Moon/Basilisk team, who has created a next-generation platform based on XUL called UXP (Unified XUL Platform). https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP
- tluyben2 8y ago
  Some part of the industry did; in MS shops a lot of XAML is used. The old MS would've pushed XAML for web applications a lot more, but the new is more of whatever the developer wants. There are people working on XAML everywhere (all platforms including web), especially in the Xamarin.Forms camp, but there is no force or adoption there. It's mostly WPF (and a bit of Xamarin) that uses XAML, but that's a large group still; I encounter it everywhere at partners/clients (usually Java runs on the servers 'in the basement' and some non trivial amount of WPF/Xamarin.Forms (XAML) (now with .NET Core where possible; even the .NET only shops do seem to like it) runs on the front facing systems).

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Weren't XAML and XUL supposed to be user interface markup languages ? Wikipedia thinks so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL

by whitten 8y ago

tabtab 8y ago
If the "industry" adopts them as a standard, then they could take off (and if not encumbered by intellectual property lawsuit risk). XUL also looked "too Webby" to me, closer aligned to HTML than desktop-like GUI's.
- tomc1985 8y ago
  I'd beg to differ, XUL produced very clean native UI yet accepted styling with CSS years before I'd seen anything else like it. At the time I was writing Firefox addons and I was blown away but what I could do with it vs. WinForms or somesuch RIP XUL, you died too early
  - amyjess 8y ago
    FYI, XUL is being kept alive by the Pale Moon/Basilisk team, who has created a next-generation platform based on XUL called UXP (Unified XUL Platform). https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP
- tluyben2 8y ago
  Some part of the industry did; in MS shops a lot of XAML is used. The old MS would've pushed XAML for web applications a lot more, but the new is more of whatever the developer wants. There are people working on XAML everywhere (all platforms including web), especially in the Xamarin.Forms camp, but there is no force or adoption there. It's mostly WPF (and a bit of Xamarin) that uses XAML, but that's a large group still; I encounter it everywhere at partners/clients (usually Java runs on the servers 'in the basement' and some non trivial amount of WPF/Xamarin.Forms (XAML) (now with .NET Core where possible; even the .NET only shops do seem to like it) runs on the front facing systems).