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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 Tyr_7BE on Wed, 2004-04-07 23:37.

XAML is winning largely on hype at the moment, but then so did WWW. The greatest challenge for XUL is to place itself in the mind of consumers as a viable useful cross platform solution. It could certainly boost it's profile with a plugin for IE and more network based example apps. Otherwise it might go the way of gopher.

Ahhh but to do that we would need to be able to first present a viable useful cross-platform solution...ie, an alliance with Gnome and Mono to provide a tight development platform. If you build it, they will come. This could be a serious booster for linux adoption, and the spread of Gnome. The community-based platform would have pretty much unopposed growth 'till 2007.

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