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Re: You GOT to be kidding me!!
by Erik Engheim on Wednesday 31/Mar/2004, @17:56

I got to go with Anon on this one. As much as I love Qt and usually hate microsoft tools I got to admitt that XAML is a good idea (although not completly new) and that it is not possible to compare it to Qt.

One point that I don't think anybody has mentioned yet, is that XAML allows you to use the same code for web pages as for applications. This is pretty cool in a way.

However I am one of those who think that one should not blur the distinction between the web and desktop applications like Microsoft is starting to do.

They should be treated separatly. In this respect I am not sure if XAML will be such a good idea. It might end up totally webifying all Windows applications.

I can also see that something similar should be possible to achieve with Qt without to much modification. We allready got the XML definition for the GUI. One only needs to expand it so that it can be understood by a web browser.

Lastly I think something similar to this is already possible with Java.

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Re: You GOT to be kidding me!!
by David on Saturday 03/Apr/2004, @11:52

"One point that I don't think anybody has mentioned yet, is that XAML allows you to use the same code for web pages as for applications. This is pretty cool in a way. "

Where do you think this is heading?

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Re: You GOT to be kidding me!!
by Erik Engheim on Saturday 03/Apr/2004, @14:38

""One point that I don't think anybody has mentioned yet, is that XAML allows you to use the same code for web pages as for applications. This is pretty cool in a way. "

Where do you think this is heading?"

Into further webifying of the windows desktop. The distinction between web applications and desktop applications is going to be blured.

Perhaps the whole windows OS will eventually be a mixture of web services running locally and remotly. For instance that when you run regular apps like MS word, part of the functionality of the program will be provided by web services or something.

I don't like this development, but what do you think?

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