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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: October 27, 2002 XUL Defines New User Interface Options (DevX) -- "XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI."
Reader Comments...
XUL is pretty neat, but it still needs more time to mature. XUL is also pretty verbose-- you're smothered in tags up to your eyeballs. The simplest interface tool I've seen (and I've tried a dozen) is Rebol/View: The runtime interpreter is less than 400 KB and scripts run unmodified on 40 platforms. Here's a screenshot and code for a simple applet: In approx. 20 lines, the applet displays an interface that downloads the source of any web page and displays it in a text area. Posted by: Maj. Brown on October 28, 2002 09:16 AM
I have to agree, REBOL/View has a very expressive UI dialect that integrates neatly with the REBOL language. Posted by: Chris on October 28, 2002 11:25 AM
xul is the next big markup for web stuff you will like it :-) Posted by: on October 29, 2002 12:02 AM
Yes, my comments about REBOL were a bit off topic, I suppose. But I have a small problem with investing in a technology like XUL solely because it's going to be "the next big thing." No offense, but markup tags are sooo lame. Free your mind; try REBOL, you'll like it. Posted by: Maj. Brown on October 29, 2002 04:35 PM
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