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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 Tyr_7BE on Wed, 2004-04-07 23:42.

What a fantastic proposal. This would basically be Gnome offering a next-generation web development platform several YEARS before MS has a chance to corner the internet again.

I'm reading a lot of comments about "this should be included" and "linux should do x", etc, but nothing really about the artical. I'm interested in the opinions of the community. Myself, I definitely support alliances like this.

Hopefully something similar could happen with the GTK and X.org / fdo xserver projects, perhaps X and the kernel, OpenOffice and Gnome, etc etc etc.... Integration hurts nobody...only helps create a robust system.

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