Dynamic User Interfaces

I'm having lots of discussion on building user interfaces dynamically. Here are the links I was talking about.

In the Longhorn world there's XAML - http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/core/overviews/about%20xaml.aspx

In the GNOME world there's Glade/Libglade - http://glade.gnome.org/ and http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/.

In the Mozilla world there's XUL - http://www.xulplanet.com/, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/ and Rapid Application Development with Mozilla.

The first one is vapourware until 2006 (2007?). The first two are reasonably tied to their respective platforms of Windows and Linux. The third is cross platform (built with the blood, sweat and tears of Netscape employees and Mozilla contributors). And there's also the in-house proprietary API that we've got.

Do we switch, or maintain the existing code base?

tech/code | 30 Oct 2004 | #