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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Gnome 2.x
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: Want to fight? Package a SOLUTION

The KHTML guys will have to follow Mozilla anyway if some XUL/XAML open standard is ever set.

The whole situation would be less sad if that were the case, but in actuality the Mozilla project seems not really interested in promoting the use of XUL for application development except for Mozilla and its offsprings themselves. KDE has initial support for XUL through KaXUL as well as supports development in XUL in KDevelop. Half a year later suddenly everyone is crazy about the uninspiring XUL-copy XAML...