[plug] cross platform XML based GUI layout engines?

[Craig Ringer]

Timothy White wrote:
> On 12/15/05, simon <simon at chrome64.org> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all
>>
>>I think Ive asked this before, but....
>>
>>Does anyone know of any OS technologies designed to allow the description and
>>rendering of a GUI?
>>
>>I know of XUL, but you're stuck rendering it in Mozilla. xGUItar is
>>proprietary, and XUIL (from memory) has proprietary renderers...
> 
> 
> XUL doesn't stick you in Mozilla.

There's work on a tool called XULRunner to provide a minimal "XUL 
runtime" but it doesn't sound at all production ready. Without that, 
you're stuck to Mozilla.

> (Mozilla is a stand along XUL application, that can also run
> XUL applications.)

Yes, in that it bundles (and is) the XUL runtime.

> I can't remember the exact way of doing it, but I'm sure there would
> be away to compile binaries for it as well.

I'd be surprised.

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Craig Ringer