RE: [boost] Re: XMLUI (was Re: Re: UI++)

From: Drazen DOTLIC (Drazen.Dotlic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-18 08:03:10

> May I come with a bit of scepticism? There's already XUL (see
> http://xulplanet.com for a start, and
> http://www.mozilla.org/catalog/architecture/xul/ for more details).
> I think Mozilla folks put some effort into it, so I wonder if 
> XMLUI offers
> something new/better?

I would say that targets of these two projects are somewhat different.
XML UI (IIUC) will support static definition of the layout and
functionality in the C++ source code itself, while XUL defines layout
(and some functionality) in the external XML file. It's like compile
time (XMLUI) vs run-time (XUL).
If you ask me, latter is a better approach if done right, but it is very
hard to make all this portable.

Drazen