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by Ez on Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @16:47

I thought the point of XAML was for microsoft to be able to replace HTML with something which describes and renders richer applications - applications which are more akin to a typical GUI app than a web page with a form embedded in it.

Obviously, the key word here is "renders". HTML web browsers, as we know them, won't render XAML applications, but isn't XAML intricately bound up with .NET? I read an article about this a few months back (sorry, forgotten the link) and I concluded that IE6 is the last visable, seperate browser in windows because future versions of windows will have this new superbrowser/.NET capability built in.

I assume the goal is to be able to download an interface description in which the screen controls are bound to server-side event handlers in the same way ASP.NET works now, the difference being that the client is running .NET and therefore is able to render a rich GUI app rather than just an (X)HTML web page.

Maybe QT/KDE could be similarly extended to make distributable web apps with a rich interface possible on Linux. It'll happen eventually, anyway. The Mono crowd, led by Microsoft-admirerer-in-chief Miguel d'incaza, are eagerly implementing their own version of XAML. A nice challenge for Mr. Hemsley et al, I would have thought...

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