- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:23:51 -0800
- To: Brian Grainger <granam@shaw.ca>
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
Think XForms as a generic XML-ish forward looking way of authoring and deploying WWW application. There is more than just "user interface" to an application-- XForms takes this front-on by creating an application model, a binding and a user interface mechanism, where the UI is "bound" t the application model via the binding mechanism. XUL is a fine XML based language --but its goal is to create UI widgetry --and UI widgets alone do not an application make. >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Grainger <granam@shaw.ca> writes: Brian> Being new to the area of XML-based user Brian> interfaces, I'm curious as to why there are two Brian> (or more?) competing formats. Brian> Both XForms and XUL seem to this neophyte to Brian> address the same issues, so some enlightenment as Brian> to why a developer would choose one over the Brian> other would be greatly appreciated. Brian> Regards, Brian -- Best Regards, --raman ------------------------------------------------------------ IBM Research: Human Language Technologies Phone: 1 (408) 927 2608 Fax: 1 (408) 927 3012 Email: tvraman@us.ibm.com WWW: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman.asc Snail: IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road San Jose 95120
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