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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] Any plans to keep up with longhorn?
From:       Tim Jansen <ml () tjansen ! de>
Date:       2003-11-02 12:29:08
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On Sunday 02 November 2003 12:38, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> About web pages, the thing I'm most concerned about is that microsoft seems
> to be writing some kind of proprietary html language, XAML, which allows to
> specify vector widgets, vectors images, etc. All with translucency
> attributes other than RGB. I bet each image tag also includes information
> about size, so as to solve the problem you are talking about.

XAML is not a html language, but rather describes the layout of a form or 
application, its menus and so on. 

You could also see it as a combined version of Qt Designer's .ui files and 
KDE's xmlgui. Like in .ui files you can specify events that you want to 
handle (=signals) and then can write either the handler in the XAML file 
(~= .ui.h files) or in your own source files. The xaml file will then be 
compiled to a class in your favorite programming language, just like .ui. As 
far as I know it is not possible to see XAML directly from the browser, 
without compiling it first.

If you happen to have a Windows machine around, this video is a nice 
introduction:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20031028LHORNDB/
manifest.xml
(The video is in a .exe installation; I was also able to unpack the .exe using 
WineX, but regular Wine crashes)

bye...




 
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