Hi Don. So you really want to write an entire application in X(A)ML? Could you write a program even close to as powerful in XAML as in other languages? What happens if you want to do something that isn't in the XAML schema?
Alastair --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Don Demsak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XAML is the technology that hooks the XML to the "application" (aka > business object). > > When you click on a anchor tag, do you have to write the code to open > the link? Nope, the rendering engine knows what a click on an anchor > tag means. This is why this is called declarative code and not > procedureal code. The idea behind things like XAML is to abstract out > all the hard coding from the average person, so that an average person > (aka non-developer) can build applications without having to write > procedural code. Think about how many people that can write HTML, > that have no clue how to write HTML objects. > > As for where does the code sit with XAML, since it is a Windows Client > only thing, it sits on the client. How do you distribute XAML apps, > well you can distribute them via a network (intra or internet), or > good old fashion installs. > > One of the things you will start to see out of the MSFT folks is the > whole concept of compiling down declarative code to IL (see the new > XSLT engine in .Net 2.0 and XQuery in SQL Server 2005). > > The problem with the SVG+SPARK comparison to Avalon and XAML is that > XAML is dependent on a VM (.Net), where SVG+SPARK does not have a > fully functional VM (Ecmascript is not a VM, or even a framework, it > is just a scripting language). If you truly want an open source > competitor of XAML, you will need to build it on .Net, Java or Mono > (maybe there is another VM that I'm missing?) > > Don > > On 6/21/05, Alastair Fettes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Ron. > > > > > > it would still be a procedural paradigm. > > > > > > Hmmm. Nope.... as declarative as XForms and SVG, no different. > > > > So if you don't need C#, then what happens when you click on that > > button? What hooks it to the application? What is the application > > code written in? Where does the application code sit? Does the > > application code sit on the server? If so, does that app code work > > with anything other than IIS? > > > > After looking at this blog (http://www.xamlblogs.com/) it seems to me > > like XAML is just an expensive version of SPARK? The SPARK project > > new motto: "SVG+SPARK - an open source alternative to XAML". ;p > > > > Alastair > > > > > > --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "mobiform" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Great comments! Some clarifications > > > > > > > > > > XAML on the other hand would use XML mark-up to create an Avalon- > > > based input > > > > box, initialise it with values, give it styling, and so on. But > > > despite the > > > > angle brackets, it would still be a procedural paradigm. (And need > > > to be > > > > converted to C#.) > > > > > > > > > XAML is not converted into C#. It is converted directly into IL and > > > binary native to the platform it is sitting on via reflection. > > > > > > > > > > > > > it would still be a procedural paradigm. > > > > > > Hmmm. Nope.... as declarative as XForms and SVG, no different. > > > > > > > > > Ron > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -or- > > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and > > click "edit my membership" > > ---- > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
