Let's Start The Disucssions!

My response to the workshop is up on my blog: 
http://donxml.com/allthingstechie/archive/2004/04/28/645.aspx , and we can 
discuss them here, if you want, but I basically said "'bout freaking time". 

IMHO, you have 2 options, try to beat XAML out the door (unlikely at this 
point) or wait for it to hit the streets, learn from it's mistakes and make 
it better. 

I think Miguel de Icaza summed it up pretty well in his recent blog entry, 
Defining The Game: 
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2004/Apr-24.html 

<snip>
Although some of the discussion has centered around using a native toolkit 
like Gtk+/XUL to build a competitor that would have ISV sex-appeal, this is 
not a good foundation as it wont give us Web-like deployment (we need a 
stack that can be secured to run untrusted applications, and we need to be 
able to verify the code that is downloaded, which leaves us with Java or 
.NET).
</snip> 

The same statement holds true for "Web Applications and Compound Documents", 
since they are very much the same thing. 

Don Demsak

Received on Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:22:45 UTC