Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Feb 2008 20:46 UTC, submitted by irbis
"It's one of the more popular culture wars in the free software community: GUI versus CLI (graphics versus the command-line). Programmers, by selection, inclination, and long experience, understandably are attracted to textual interactions with the computer, but the text interface was imposed originally by technological limitations. The GUI was introduced as a reply to those problems, but has undergone very little evolution from 1973 (when it was invented at Xerox PARC) to today. So why can't we do better than either of these tired old systems?"
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You mean XAML?
It says here ( http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/rrelyea/archive/2004/03/31/2893.as... and http://www.simplegeek.com/PermaLink.aspx/b7e02709-0112-4977-9b73-1a... ) that they originally thought of supporting CSS (or CSS-like stuff), but then decided to pull it out for various reasons.
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2005-07-06
isnt this more or less what microsoft stuffed into vista?
or at least, i could have sworn that one can do gui's using a xml based language there.
sadly they havent seperated the ui from the rest so that a creative person can go about and radically rewrite the ui if he wants to (that i know of).
but then, thats what the kde people did with kde4, no? so that all the variants of desktop clocks that they have use the same "engine", but each layout is rewritten on top of that?