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geraldbauer2005 | 18 Nov 19:22

Reminder: XAML Group Folded Back Into xul-talk List

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Hello,

   just a reminder to let you know that the XAML Developers Group has
been folded back into the xul-talk mailing list. Please send your XAML
postings to the new list and update any bookmarks you might have.

   For details about the xul-talk mailing list see
http://xul.sourceforge.net

   - Gerald

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geraldbauer2005 | 30 Oct 22:49

XAML Group Folded Back Into xul-talk List - Please Update Your Bookmarks

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Hello,

  I have no longer the time to manage and moderate the XAML Developers
Group using the Yahoo! service. To keep the group going I've folded
the group back into the xul-talk mailing list. I invite you to send
your XAML postings to the new list to continue discussions on all
things XAML. See http://xul.sourceforge.net/#discuss for details.

  - Gerald

PS: Please, note that you can no longer post to the Yahoo! group.

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geraldbauer2005 | 19 Sep 19:53

SVG Open 2006 Conference Organizer Discuss XAML Coverage

Hello,

   The SVG Open 2006 Conference organizer have setup a public
mailinglist for planning and coordinating the upcoming conference on
all things XML held in Victoria, British Columbia.

    Kurt Cagle - the conference chair - writes on XAML:

 Trying to figure out where to put XAML has long been one of the more
challenging parts of this puzzle - I tend, like Antoine, to be leery
about necessarily giving XAML too large a space, but at the same time
recognize that in this part of the world especially, Microsoft is an
important player and should not be excluded entirely from the
discussion.

I want to stress that to me, there are three fundamental aspects that
define SVG technology that should be used as reasonable criteria in
evaluating whether a given alternative technology should be given air
time --

1) Is the technology in question an open standard? In other words, is
the technology freely implementable by others without licensing fees
or membership in a particular company's for fee developer network?
This would tend to limit XAML participation, though given that it is
in essence a "competing" technology, I would dare say that it behooves
the community to at least be aware of it.

2) Is the technology XML based? Secondarily, if it is not itself an
XML schema based system, can it be made to work with or in the context
of an XML language? By this light, the Canvas object should be given

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geraldbauer2005 | 14 Sep 05:07

Microsoft Announces XAML-Browser Plugin For Apple's Safari and other Browsers

Hello,

    Ben Galbraith writes in the blog story titled "Avalon Everywhere?
Cross-platform Microsoft?":

   Another interesting announcement here at PDC is that Microsoft is
creating a subset of their cool, fancy pants UI layer (formerly
code-named Avalon, now WPF) on other platforms, including the Mac! In
fact, one of the demos involved showing vector graphics rendered in
Safari using a Microsoft plug-in.

This subset, called WPF/E, will be powered by XAML (their XML dialect
for representing the UI) and JavaScript. Sound familiar? Yes, that's
right  Microsoft also announced a Dashboard clone for Windows Vista.
Interesting

Microsoft will never port .NET to other major operating systems, but
to have a subset of Avalon available on other platforms is a bit of a
curveball. In fact, in light of Firefox and Safari's upcoming support
of SVG and Canvas (and in the future, 3D functionality), this move
makes sense; Microsoft wants to provide their own proprietary solution
to cut off this new cross-platform initiative.

Also, Microsoft's Ajax framework, Atlas, will target WPF/E. The WPF/E
subset of Avalon will include all of the Avalon features (vector
graphics, animations, etc.) less 3D, some of their XPS features (XPS
== Microsoft PDF clone), and hardware acceleration.

In a WPF/E session, someone asked if Microsoft's WPF/E plug-in will be
available in Firefox; the speaker dodged the question ("We hope such

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geraldbauer2005 | 13 Sep 03:48

O'Reilly Book on XAML Upcoming in October

Hello,

  allow me to highlight the upcoming O'Reilly book on all things XAML
titled "Programming Windows Presentation Foundation" by Chris Sells
and Ian Griffiths.

   Find out more @ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/avalon/toc.html

   If you know any other upcoming books on XAML, please let us know.

    - Gerald

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softwareman4life | 9 Sep 05:56

XAML Editor

I am pleased to offer you a text editor that you may use to create
XAML files. I created the program as a part of my senior project for my 
BS degree. It is still a work in progress but works. It can be
downloaded from 
http://lcbell4.tripod.com/SeniorProject/Senior_Project_XAML_Editor.htm

If you have any comments about the software just send me an email. 
You are encouraged to make a donation for the software as listed on
the web site and in the software.

Lawrence (Larry) C. Bell
softwareman4life <at> yahoo.com

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geraldbauer2005 | 12 Aug 22:43

New CSS-like XAML Syntax for Styling Introduced In Windows Vista - Comments?

Hello,

   With the latest Windows Vista/WinFX release Microsoft has updated
its XAML styling syntax to use a CSS-like notation. 

   In the "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation
Beta 1 Release" Tim Sneath writes:

    The styling model in Avalon has been refactored in this release.
Styles no longer contain instances of the controls inside them, but
instead include property setters and getters. The new format is
slightly more verbose but offers somewhat greater flexibility.

The following sample shows the new syntax for setting a style:

   <Page.Resources>
      <Style TargetType="{x:Type Paragraph}">
         <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Palatino Linotype" />
         <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="16pt" />
         <Setter Property="Margin" Value=".25in" />
      </Style>
   </Page.Resources>

   Source:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnlong/html/hgtobeta1.asp

   Any thoughts? Any comments?

   - Gerald

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Gerald Bauer | 13 Jul 05:26

Google-sponsored Open Source XAML Compiler (XAMLC) for Mono In Progress

Hello,

   Iain McCoy is currently creating an open source XAML compiler (XAMLC) for the Mono 
project thanks to the sponsorship of Google's Open Source Summer of Code 2005 initiative.

  See http://www.mono-project.com/Summer2005#XAML_compiler for details.

  If anyone knows details about the project, please let us know.

  - Gerald

PS: If anyone thinks creating a  XAML compiler/parser is rocket science, check out Marc 
Clifton's article titled "MycroXAML - A Declarative Xml Parser In Less Than 300 Lines Of Code" 
online @ http://xaml.sourceforge.net/mycroxaml.html

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Gerald Bauer | 24 Jun 04:25

Sitecore - Commercial Content management system built using XAML

Hello,

  The Sitecore website states:

  Sitecore V5 is the first content management system in the world to support and use the 
XAML concept. XAML is an abstraction of the user interface that allows easy integration 
and reuse of small building blocks, for instance html fragments and web-controls on the 
web platform and Windows form-controls on the Windows platform. XAML is device 
independent, toolable, easy to read and write, and separates UI from code logic. Moreover, 
combined with the Sitecore discoverable API, and extensive libraries of XAML and web-
controls, development times can be slashed radically.

   And Lars Fløe Nielsen - a Solution Architect for Sitecore - writes in a newsgroup posting:

  You are almost right regarding the support for the XAML concept. 

However, Sitecore does support real XAML. We implemented a XAML parser  that converts 
XAML to .NET, as you are quite right that the Longhorn (and hence the WinFX) hasn't been 
released yet. 

The parser supports most of the XAML model with these exceptions: 
* We do not currently support the resources concept. 
* We do not currently support the animation concept. 
* We have (naturally) not imported the full XAML control hierarchy that 
the WinFX in future will supply. 

As the entire Sitecore application are based on XAML controls, we have off course added a 
number of controls (around 100 controls), that can be used for modifying our own 
product, but also for building web sites.

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Gerald Bauer | 6 Jun 21:16

XAMJ 0.91 Is Out - Open Source XAML Alternative

XAMJ is an XML language designed as an open-source, Java-based alternative to
Microsoft's .NET-based XAML, plus as a way to address many of the shortcomings of
HTML/Javascript. Warrior is the prototype browser for XAMJ. This release focuses on
improvements in deployability, reliability and completeness.

Home Page: http://html.xamjwg.org
Donwload : http://html.xamjwg.org/download.jsp
SF Page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamj

The list of changes follows:

- Windows: Now adding .xamj file mapping during installation of Warrior. This allows
Windows users to double-click .xamj files directly (works just as if it were an interpreted
language, even though it's compiled -- we just need to add caching to make it fast.) Note,
however, that clicking on .xamj links in Internet Explorer causes the .xamj file to be
downloaded by IE, then passed to Warrior as a file, which will break relative URLs
contained in the .xamj file. We might have to add another kind of file, such as .xamjlnk
that contains the actual .xamj URL, to allow effective linking from IE and other browsers. If
anyone knows a better way to achieve this, please email info AT xamjwg DOT org.

- Changed mime-type to application/x-xamj+xml.

- Fixed issue with split-box orientation.

- Fixed issue with tree-node sizing after icon added.

- Fixed issue with on-demand content loading not repainting sometimes.

- Added support for widget elements radio-button, check-box, toggle-button, radio-
button-menu-item, check-box-menu-item, and button-group.

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Gerald Bauer | 27 May 00:38

XTech 2005 Slide Deck On MSXAML By Microsoft Spec Owner Online

Hello,

  You can find Rob Relyea's slide deck on XAML online in the XTech 2005 conference 
proceedings section.

  See http://idealliance.org/proceedings/xtech05 for details.

  - Gerald

PS: Find out more about XTech 2005 @ http://www.xtech.org

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