Article:		The State of XML
Subject:		What about XUL?
Date:		2004-05-02 13:26:56
From:		John Silva
Response to: What about XUL?
I could say the same about something like XML-RPC. It was open-source and it didn't have the backing of the big IDEs (and MS, etc.) but it did serve to lay some of the ground work for SOAP, wouldn't you say? I'm suggesting that XAML is 'just' MS waking up to the work done by the OS community with XUL and yes, they'll make it available 'to the masses' because they'll bundled into their IDE and because they have the 'market clout' to make it persuasive. However, I still contend that it was the work of the OS [XUL] community (and Netscape/AOL) that laid the groundwork ...

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