XUL vs FLEX vs XAML
Jon Udell compares Macromedia's Flex (MXML) to MSoft's XAML. Jon's a great Mozilla advocate but he left off XUL from this table.Perhaps, because there's no comparison. Mozilla does it all and better. I didn't bother to color code, XUL is all *green*.
| MXML | XAML | XUL |
| Here today | 2006? 2007? | Here today and battle tested. |
| Runs anywhere Flash Player 7 runs | Runs only on Longhorn | Runs on any platform. Runtime smaller than .Net. |
| Server required | Server not required | Server Not Required |
| Uses ActionScript 2.0 | Uses .NET languages | Javascript, Python, C++ |
| XPath support: no | XPath support: yes | XPath support: yes |
| CSS support: limited | CSS support: no | CSS Support: excellent. |
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Posted at 18:33
