Talk:User interface markup language

Minghong,

As far as I know, MXML and XAML weren't pioneers. MXML was developed with full knowledge of XUL. And XAML is largely a copy of it.

Do you have any problems with me removing them from the list of "pioneers"???

-- Charles Iliya Krempeaux

The section on XAML does not mention Microsoft at all and does not quite fit in with the style of the rest of the article. May I suggest NPOV cleanup?

no criticism section?
The markup-based UI, even after many years of evolution, in terms of REAL application development, remains an unqualified disaster compared to options available to thick client developers. The markup-script-based UI requires FAR more effort to implement, are less reliable, look worse, and delivers less functionality than any thick client UI.

And on the contrary - markup languages do not prevent "reinvention of the wheel" at all in practice - they encourage cut and paste.

The whole idea of markup as UI is flawed because its predicated on the HTML / JavaScript spec already covering everything a UI needs to be, at a very high level - and that's just never going to happen. Yes there is a demand for a high-level way of expressing a user interface, but any silly markup-script UI should be compiled into a lower level file by the designer. Browsers should receive something entirely different.

Just my $.02.

24.60.177.137 (talk) 04:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Where are GTK+'s GladeXML, wxWidgets' XRC, Rapicorn? Not only they are based on XML, but have exactly this purpose. Also Opera Widgets? --91.213.255.7 (talk) 01:49, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

DCL
Does Autodesk's Dialog Control Language belong in this article?--Theodore Kloba (talk) 14:57, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

This entire page should be remade
The list of languages and their description should be on the list page. We should have benefits and criticism sections, maybe a history section. AlexVoda (talk) 21:27, 11 February 2014 (UTC)