
3 Mar
2004
3 Mar
'04
4:36 p.m.
Max responded to David Turner regarding a GUI library:
I would add:
9. (really 0 in my view) It should use an extensive resource description schema or language (for widget properties, layouts and relations) that is either interpreted at run time or (though I like it less) compiled into code transparently to the user. This resource description should probably be XML-based.
I agree, and would definitely go with a XUL-like approach for any new GUI library, i.e., have the GUI defined completely in an XML file. Maybe even handling Microsoft's future XML descriptors for GUIs (XAML?) /David