A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft's new Vista operating system coming out next week will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago. The group, which includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle and Red Hat, said its complaints made last year are yet to be addressed just days before Vista is due for release.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I assume you are referring to this line:
"Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML," the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet."
In that case, the Wiki entry is wrong. Even more interesting, it appears that the Wiki entry is being edited even as I type this to represent more factual information, and that line no longer exists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Extensible_Application_Ma...
XAML has about as much in common with HTML as XML does, i.e. they both use <> to delimit markup and that's about it. XAML binaries (.baml) files can be hosted in a web broswer via the WPF (or WPF/e) runtime ala java applets/embedded flash/etc, however it is still a native WPF application...the actual XAML is NOT being parsed by the browser, but rather by the runtime engine.
Please do your homework before believing everything you read on Wikipedia.
Member since:2005-12-02
"I assume you are referring to this line:
"Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML," the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet."
In that case, the Wiki entry is wrong. Even more interesting, it appears that the Wiki entry is being edited even as I type this to represent more factual information, and that line no longer exists. "
That is exactly the line from the article I pulled out and referenced in my original post. Also why I posted the wikipedia link. Those 2 do not seem to go together. The Wiki mentions that it is used in .NET 3.0, for WPF. Hence my original post was asking how it could replace HTML since it is different. Maybe I worded it badly, but in short I agree with what you wrote and is the same thing I was getting at originally.
Member since:
2005-12-02
"That is entirely incorrect. XAML isn't even used in any of the .Net 3.0 web technologies, it's specific to WPF (the successor to WinForms). No web. None. Zero. Zilch."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language
Not according to MS and Wikipedia....