On Apr 16, 2004, at 4:25 AM, Gerald Bauer wrote:
> Well, the point of XUL is that your forms designer
> (interface builder) isn't tied to a toolkit such as
> Cocoa, Gtk+, Qt or whatever but you can choose to some
> extent your toolkit and reuse to some extend your XML
> forms.
>
So...do you know of a good WYSIWYG forms designer that emits XUL? :)
(I believe IB can now save to an XML format, but it's not XUL. Maybe
someone will write a stylesheet that will translate from one to the
other...?)
I'm still not sure I buy the idea that a "compact" syntax makes things
easier for Aunt Trudie, unless Trudie is already a C programmer. As I
remember, the phenomenon was quite the opposite. When HTML appeared, a
lot of previously non-technical people decided they could be a "web
developer" as markup was a lot easier for them to understand than C or
Fortran.
If Trudie doesn't already know C, Python, or Lisp, why will a syntax
that looks like one of those languages help her? I think your
alternative syntaxes will appeal much more to
old-school-why-do-I-need-a-GUI-autocompleting-syntax-coloring-bloated-
thing-to-edit-a-text-file Unix heads.
-jimbo
Excelsior! XML Marshaller for Cocoa
http://www.homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html
