After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Adobe AIR fulfills hopes for cross-platform developers
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> | AIR, however, is not as powerful as Microsoft's Windows
> | Presentation Foundation or Apple's Cocoa development technologies,
> | Brimelow said. With those, developers have fuller access to the
> | user's hard drive and OS capabilities, he said.
> `----
Is that, like, supposed to be a /desirable/ feature?
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7794/53/
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> ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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> | An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
> | in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
> | public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
> | Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
> | the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
> | etwork applications.
> `----
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> http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
However, Roy...
"In a much more explicit explanation, Microsoft developer Chad Hower
lists and enumerates the features XAML lacks in a side-by-side
comparison with HTML. Among the items Hower mentions: XAML has no
provisions for submitting the contents of forms - no counterpart to
the FORM element in HTML; XAML has no way to embed a scripting
language; and perhaps the most striking differentiation, XAML has no
provisions for hyperlinking to other documents.
Or perhaps this is the clincher: Hower actually argues that XAML
cannot replace HTML because XAML is not yet cross-platform. From his
perspective, Hower conceded that many sites are designed for Internet
Explorer only, so for at least a chunk of Internet users,
Windows-only support is acceptable. But not for everyone."
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Tux rox!
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