From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-02-07T05:32:56+09:00
Subject: Re: locana, SVG, cross-platform GUI meanderings...

In article <20030206191942.GT17870@segment7.net>,
Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
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>Phil Tomson (ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com) wrote:
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>>=20
>> Hmmmm.... But Flash isn't open as SVG is.
>>=20
>> So SVG doesn't have things like pull-down menus?  What if what was=20
>> generated was a mix of SVG and HTML (which does AFAIK have pulldown=20
>> menus).
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>=2E.. but Gecko can do it with XBL...
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>I don't see why Flash is so cool when you can already do the same stuff
>it does with a decent web browser *cough* mozilla *cough*.  Well, ok, so
>I do, its because IE went and implemented all these evil non-standard
>things, and didn't bother to implement the really cool standard ones.
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>Gecko is open, Gecko is free, and Gecko is an _amazing_ application
>development framework.
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>*AND* you can do it all in Ruby with http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org
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This is interesting.  Is this related to the XUL for customizing Mozilla 
stuff?  There has been a lot of talk lately about Mozilla becoming a 
platform in it's own right.  There's a new O'Reilly book out called 
"Developing applications with Mozilla" (or something close to that).

Phil
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