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Qt can even support no-compilation
by George Staikos on Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @10:27

Have a look at some of the KJSEmbed examples, or even more powerful (and building upon KJSEmbed), kdenonbeta/kaxul. kaxul takes Mozilla's XUL files and makes a native Qt GUI for it. The code is interpreted Javascript so it runs everywhere without modification. No compiler is required, just an interpreter. KDE has been ahead of Microsoft on this for over a year now. Mozilla has been leading the way with this for even longer, though I still don't like their widgets. :-)

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Re: Qt can even support no-compilation
by Paul on Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @10:39

I enjoyed that KaXUL presentation, very funny, cheers.

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Re: Qt can even support no-compilation
by fprog26 on Saturday 27/Mar/2004, @03:37

KaXUL looks promising...

The main thing is that XAML is really a Microsoft version:
XUL + SVG + JS + .NET framework
probably using ActiveX and Internet Explorer for "Web Apps"
and using CLR for Windows Apps.

Like KaXUL, it is expected that XAML will be translated into CLR code.

Obviously, comparing XAML with Qt is non-sense,
but comparing something like KJSEmbed+KSVG+KaXUL with XAML do makes sense.

Obviously anyone could create that XAML example,
in VB, HBasic, Qt Designer, C++ Builder, Visual Studio or any similar,
that's not the point.

The big issue here is that W3C is still bogging SVG
to include any serious add-on like XUL or even MathML,
currently it's not even sure we will get XForms... before Xmas!?
So, we would need some standard format that includes all those technology
in one XML namespace to compete with XAML.

So, basically it's like comparing some sort of Advanced .ui with XAML.

Are we getting any complete XUL/SVG renderer in Konqueror any time soon,
using a widget factory or similar?

Currently, KSVG is far behind ASV3/ASV6. =(

Basically, the point is to have the full feature sets before Microsoft
and once Microsoft launch Longhorn provide a simple XAML converter to
whatever XUL+SVG format established.

Hopefully, the future looks promising...

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Re: Qt can even support no-compilation
by David on Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @14:03

Yes I saw that, and downloaded the Nove Hrady presentation. It wasn't exactly Earth shattering, but it was certainly extremely interesting.

Although I don't see it being used for the things that Microsoft seem to be hyping it for (what are they hyping it for?), it should be interesting for form design (Kexi, office tools?) and various other exciting things I can't think of right now.

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