Hiya, +++++++1
I can't quite say how many plus ones the idea of XUL support from Cforms gets from me. As I mentioned earlier, we've been using XUL in production to drive a web based GUI for a couple of months now. The feature set we get is just amazing. The other interesting thing, in relation to Luke's point is that there is actually a flash based XUL engine - meaning that those 98% could still make use of the XUL. It's not fully featured yet, and does carry a non OSS license with it - but bear it in mind: http://zulu.netspedition.com/zulu/main/overview.shtml The other thing to consider here is *shudder* Longhorn. M'soft have made it very clear that their next gen GUI interface will be based around a beast incredibly similar to XUL. If we start with XUL support now, adapting a Longhorn interface also becomes fairly trivial. I'm willing to help in any XUL development exercise. Corin -----Original Message----- From: luke hubbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2004 2:32 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RT] - XUL revisited.... Sylvain Wallez wrote: > "if we have the control"... Unfortunately, 90% of people out there use IE... 98% of people out there have Flash Player. :) Flash is installed on most machines, it can load and parse xml, and has a wide range of ui components. It would be great if we could create a flash component to render cforms that could be used from within the flash IDE. Also a standalone swf file that could be embedded into a html page to display a form for ppl without the IDE. As we all know flash is not open source, but the swf format is. Im not sure if there are licencing issues with regard to distributing swf file(s) that contains the MM ui components. Would need to read the EULA carefuly. Even if it was a problem I have heard there are a group of developers working on open source ui components. Anyway just an idea. I have a few more regarding cocoon & flash intergration but they can wait for another day. Im not against XUL, think it would be the right choice for some apps. Would be cool to have multiple cforms styling options. Regards, Luke ================================================================ CAUTION: This e-mail and any attachment(s) contains information that is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). It may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or the subject of legal privilege. This information is not to be used by any other person and/or organisation. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. Do not use any information contained in it. ================================================================ For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us online at http://www.tvnz.co.nz ================================================================
