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From: achrist@easystreet.com
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Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:32:06 -0700
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See the article on slashdot today pointing to:

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/10/browser_wars/index.html

Which mentions Mozilla as a cross-platform GUI tool that is controlled
by something called XUL.  Maybe an Ada-to-XUL API is what we need.


Al  


Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 22:21:11 -0700, Robert C. Leif wrote:
> 
> [long nice explanation]
> 
> so it boils down to two things: GUI portability and XML being in. Costs
> are as I see it increase CPU usage and memory usage.
> 
> Preben