On Mon, 20 May 2013 12:41:08 -0700 "Adam Wilson" <flybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 12:28:16 -0700, Dmitry Olshansky > <dmitry.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Markup for GUI layout seems like a decent idea. > > > > HTML is markup. XAML is markup. QML is markup. XUL is markup. iOS is > markup. Android is markup. Realistically, the age of OS native > toolkits has passed, markup is the future. *shrug* For me it's a > practical thing, And what takes that markup and actually executes it? Magical GUI fairies? ;) Markup is, by necessity, nothing more than a front-end for a code-based GUI engine/toolkit/whatever-we-want-to-call-it. The GUI toolkits will always be there whether it's the UI designers that use it directly or the markup developers that use it directly. >markup is extensible, OS widgets are not. > I don't know where you got that idea.