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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x

With lots of talk recently about mono/java/python, it seems like a response to Longhorn and XAML is brewing. People at mozilla are talking about how to create an alliance against the hegemon. Co-operation with gnome is discussed on mozillazine. I do hope that gnome can use the XUL language or something like it so that gui programming is easy for us mere mortals. Lets not re-invent the wheel reproducing XAML when we've already got XUL!

Re: Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-04-07 08:55.

I see your point. But the question is - will static html/xml fade away soon? I believe not at all. To date i've seen exactly 1 webbased java application that worked nicely.

www.map24.de

And Java has been with us for a while. I've had so many bad experiences with Java software in general that currently i try to avoid anything related to Java.

I'm not saying it's going to be the same or worse with .NET/Mono, but i'd like to point out that webbased apps are not going to replace static webpages in a long period of time.

MS has at least one big motivation to push their own platform for webbased/remote applications - searching for other kinds of software ransom - say you'd get 1hour of using MSOffice for $5 dollars(just an example of software lease), no piracy, lower cost.

But -- Do we need this with OSS?

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