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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: Want to fight? Package a SOLUTION

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-04-07 21:53.

1. freedesktop.org

2. Uhm, what's wrong with more than one scripting language? As long as they are executable, they should run. There are many programs in your /usr/bin that are just shell scripts but it really doesn't matter since they run like any other program.

If your distribution installed every single language with all their libraries and all the source code, you're using the wrong one. Mine only installs something I don't really want when it's a dependency of something I do want.

3. There isn't a perfect browser to pick yet. Opera is closed and all the others are massive. Out of all my apps, Epiphany takes the longest to load.

4. I find documentation for users is weak, documentation for programmers is excellent.

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