Why wait for XAML? XUL is available now, tightly integrated with the Mozilla browsers and provides a full framework for building desktop or Web applications.
by Laurence Moroney
June 15, 2004
or almost a year now Microsoft has been touting XAML, its XML Application Markup Language, as being a significant disruptive technology changing how you will develop your applications, and in particular the presentation layer for .NET applications.
But thanks to a juggling of internal resources, XAML, and its parent, Longhorn, have been pushed into the vague future with a constantly shifting release date sometime after 2006. However the underlying idea—the separation of user interface declaration and application service logic—is a good one and you don't have to wait for Longhorn and XAML to start developing with that paradigm today.
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or almost a year now Microsoft has been touting XAML, its XML Application Markup Language, as being a significant disruptive technology changing how you will develop your applications, and in particular the presentation layer for .NET applications.
