xml-dev - Re: Component Markup Language

["Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@ix.netcom.com>]

>HTML 4 isn't quite up to providing a full GUI, even with the DOM. For
>example you can't do menu's.

Thats news to me!

You can't do buttons with images on them (I'm
>not talking about images that are buttons),

What about the <button> element?

<button>
    <img src="stop.gif">
    <br>Stop!!
</button>

willl give as good a button with an image as VB or C++

 you can't do tabbed dialogs
>(well, you can, but it's non-trivial),

It's almost trivial using CSS. Use the z layer property.

I'm sure there are other things. Of
>course you could add these things into HTML 5, but I don't think it's worth
>going down that road.

X HTML, (I don't think that I am selling any state secrets here)  will
include a complete rewrite of 'forms', including new interfaces.

I for one, and I'm sure that other members of the HTML WG would be very
interested in learning what extra needs people have for the GUI, or for
information handling on the client side.


Frank (speaking on my own behalf)





----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Sergeant (EML) <Matthew.Sergeant@eml.ericsson.se>
To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: Component Markup Language


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Birbeck [SMTP:Mark.Birbeck@iedigital.net]
>>
>> Great idea. Can I suggest we call it HTML?
>>
>> (OK I know I've cracked that one already - it's the end of the week. But
>> really, if you want an XML specification for a user interface, surely
>> HTML 4.0 is the one to choose. Then you could use a 'cool browser' that
>> has an "XML GUI Interpreter" built in - like, well, IE4 and Netscape 4.)
>>
>HTML 4 isn't quite up to providing a full GUI, even with the DOM. For
>example you can't do menu's. You can't do buttons with images on them (I'm
>not talking about images that are buttons), you can't do tabbed dialogs
>(well, you can, but it's non-trivial), I'm sure there are other things. Of
>course you could add these things into HTML 5, but I don't think it's worth
>going down that road.
>
>Matt.
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