[WSG] xul - smil - abbr - questions

[Pierre-Henri Lavigne]

Good Day everyone,

I know we can consider again my message as a discussion not in the rule of 
terms and conditions, but there is none of 4000 members on IRC.

First Stuart, you were right about the IE italic bug. Thanks.
Christian, the book you cite will be in my cart in september ;)

Vanilla is really insteresting. Maybe I will use it for my SF project. Anyway 
I'm interesting in alternative languages like XUL. Do you think XUL could be 
the appropriate AJAX alternative for an admin management, or should I forget 
now ? I suppose XUL is not in the state of mind of web standards. 
Misconception ?

I found http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articles/askw3c/jun2004/ and other 
ALA articles about object, but does anyone has a reference about using SMIL ? 
Shoud I buy an other book ? :(

I know the abbr tag isn't working with IE6 for example, but  I think it's not 
really appropriate to use acronym instead of abbr. Even if the display / 
vocal render is better, the meaning will be wrong. I think for an english 
teacher an acronym is not an abbreviation as for a developer a constant is 
not a variable.  Em, span, etc seem to be better in this case.

Web workers come from various origins. Does anyone try to create a school ?
Most web professional diploma s in France. I'm thinking about the french 
CNAM. Advises are welcome.

Cheers

-- 
Pierre-Henri Lavigne
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Re: [WSG] xul - smil - abbr - questions

[Matthew Cruickshank]

Pierre-Henri Lavigne wrote:

Anyway I'm interesting in alternative languages like XUL. Do you think XUL could
be the appropriate AJAX alternative for an admin management, or should I forget 
now ? I suppose XUL is not in the state of mind of web standards. 
Misconception ?
  
XUL itself isn't particularly standardised, the most anyone could say is 
that some moz developers who now work at Apple put some XUL primitives 
into Safari.


However XUL is based upon open standards, and much the same standards as 
HTML such as HTTP, JavaScript (XmlHttpRequest), SVG/GIF/PNG/JPEG...


Because it has more widgets than HTML it certainly suits application 
interfaces, and may suit your admin management tool. It doesn't replace 
AJAX, or even HTML (because it can intermingle with HTML and just 
provide more widgets).



At my work we've developed some proprietary software based around 
Python, XML Pipelines, and XSLT. It converts XML source files into 
HTML+Javascript and -- for Firefox -- XUL+Javascript. Here's a company 
blog entry about this...


http://plutoblog.onesquared.net/2006/08/10/bear-patrol-2/


.Matthew Cruickshank
http://docvert.org  Convert your Word files to HTML with Open Source


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