• To: 'James Clark' <jjc@j...>, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Microsoft Hypes Up XUL As The Greatest Expiriment Since Adam And Eve
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:23:00 -0600
• Cc: "\"xml-dev@l...\"" <xml-dev@l...>

VML has been there for a while if that is a redo of VML 
so if they rolled it, they did it by repackaging old 
tobacco.

It is the performance of the mush of different XML 
languages and objects that would make me wince.  One 
has to ask, why do this in XML at all.

len

From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@j...]

> I see no evidence they're reinventing CSS or SVG. What have they done 
> here that bothers you?

It does look like they're rolling their own version of SVG.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/01/D
evelopingAppsforLonghorn/default.aspx

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