Hello, In case you're in the Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) area allow me to highlight tomorrow's upcoming mini talk titled "The Future of the Web: Rich Clients, Rich Browsers, Rich Portals" covering markup languages that go way beyond HTML and that let you create rich "classic desktop-style" internet applications using web techniques.
The Vancouver Software Developers Network (VanDev) will host the mini talk tomorrow, that is, Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 7:00 PM at the UBC Robson Square Downtown Campus in room C550. See http://softwaredev.meetup.com/17/events/4028039 for details. - Gerald PS: Please, note that the VanDev format encourages speakers to keep the one-way presentation as short as is reasonable in order to focus on interactive discussion. I will follow the format and hope to be done in about twenty five minutes. If you're undecided, here's my talk slide lineup outlining the topics I will try to touch on: o Why Rich Clients? Why Rich Browsers? Isn't Dynamic HTML (aka HTML, DOM, JavaScript) enough? o One Language Can't Do It All: Beyond Hairballs and Spaghetti Code o What is XUL? o XUL Vision o Lines of Code Benchmark: MFC vs. WindowsForms vs. XUL o XUL Architecture - Beyond Hairballs and Spaghetti Code o XML is not ... / The "Golden Hammer" Fallacy o XUL Tag Sampling o First Impression - XUL In Action - Counter Example o Man vs. Machine - XUL (XML UI Language) vs. General All-Purpose XML Formats o First Impression - XAML In Action - Forms o What is XAML? o Lines of Code Benchmark: XAML vs. C# o XAML Widget Tag Sampling - XUL-like Tags o XAML Box Layout Tags (aka Panels) o XAML (Hyper)Text Tag Sampling - HTML-like Tags o XAML 2D Graphics Tag Sampling - SVG-like Tags o XAML Styling Sample o Second Impression - XUL In Action - Calculator Example o Third Impression - XUL In Action - Alternative Calculator Example o The XUL/XUI/XAML Naming Debate o XML UI Languages & Acronyms Abound o Why are there so many XUL/XML UI formats? o Industry Giants At Work o What about the W3C? o HTML 5- Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group (WG) o The Five Freedoms of the XUL Charter o Internet Explorer Is Dead - The Next Browser Is Windows 2006 Itself o Quotes From the Microsoft Avalon Team o The Commercial Web vs. the Hippie Web o Amazon.com Case Study - Will Amazon.com Adopt XAML? o Google.com Case Study - Will Google.com Adopt XAML? o Reach vs. Rich - HTML vs XAML - Web vs. Windows o That's it - The Future Just Happened Appendix o XUL Grand Coding Challenge 2004 - XForms, Thinlet, Flex, SwiXml, xWidglets, ... o What is MyXAML? - XAML-Friendly, Markup-Friendly .NET Libraries - XAML-Friendly .NET Library Case Study: Gtk# ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list xul-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
