From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Lorenzo Pastrana
[lpastrana@altern.org]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:08 PM
To: 3DUI
Subject: Re: XML anyone?

> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> Have you seen UIML? (http://www.uiml.org/) How do you compare your
> language with this? Is your language available?

I believe XML is great but I'm not an evangelist.. I don't feel the need to
build a complete fully XML operationnal 'language', yeah XML is a 'syntax' for
storing data not a language to build complete applications.. ;)

Well I don't know UIML well but it seams to me that they are going way too far
(see the expression evaluation part).. I don't want the 'logic' part to be
described in XML, actually the XML part in my stuff is responsible for the
layout : instancing the objects/widgets/primitives tree, I'm planning to bind
ECMA Script to my host..

And no it's not available, not yet, for it's still a work in progress.. but soon
hopefully (I'm missing some ressouces though).


>
> Best Regards,
Best :)
Lorenzo Pastrana.

PS: Just had a glance to your 3dml project, and appears the the overlap is
almost total but I feel the direction is not exactly the same... Do you have an
implementation?


>
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Lorenzo Pastrana wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm actually using XML to describe hyerarchies and GUI objects geometry
is
> > in other format (X3D is way too heavy to describe complex objects), within
XML I
> > can access series of primitives and GUI widgets.