Re: Miguel de Icaza (Mono Chief) and Brendan Eich (Mozilla Chief) On MS-XAML/Ava

Hello,

> Anyone care to enlighten me on this?  Or does Miguel and Brendan not 
> know what they're talking about?

  Ok let me try how I understand Miguel's and Brendan's comments. I
think Brendan's point is that there is no such thing as a well-defined
XAML format (e.g. like HTML). When you use MS-XAML you are always
bound to the underlying API. Of course, that's excactly what Microsoft
wants to get you locked in. Also the Avalon API is a monster on
purpose so you can't clone it without spending a billion or two.  

  The web architecture in contrast is different. A REST-style stresses
document formats instead of APIs and also stress universal human
readable addresses (e.g. URL) and so on. 

  Also one strength of HTML is that it is fault tolerant and thus you
can add attributes or tags as you please and they just get ignored. In
contrast, as far as I understand MS-XAML, if you use tags or
attributes that don't match the Windows API or Windows class structure
you will get compile time errors and thus Microsoft can break
compatibility as they please and gently force you to upgrade as they
do know. 

   - Gerald 

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Gerald Bauer

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