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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x
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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 11:53.

Mono is nothing more than another totally unfinished work in progress that is hyped to no end as a solution for everything. It's a waste of ressources in my opinion (hey, it's mine, so don't feel offended)

Mono 1.0 will be out in a couple months, so I don't know how you can call it hype. About the only stuff that will not be in it will be winforms(which is being worked on but totally irrelevant to gnome anyway) and some microsoft specific stuff. The important bits are ecma 335 and 336 which are done now. Whether you like it or not Mono is going to be a player in the open source world.

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