Sans Browser » Android http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser Merging the best of the web and desktop Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:25:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 AXUL – Android XML User Interface Language http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2007/11/12/axul-android-xml-user-interface-language/ http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2007/11/12/axul-android-xml-user-interface-language/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:26:26 +0000 enefekt http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2007/11/12/axul-android-xml-user-interface-language/ Google’s new Android mobile platform chose Java for it’s application development language. But what’s lacking in developing a Java GUI app? Oh, but of course, something that Mozilla and Adobe have implemented already as part of their platforms, an XML based user interface language!

I made up the name of course, since I couldn’t find a name for it: AXUL.
The format looks a little like SWIXML without the Swing.

This reinforces the whole strategy of using a markup language to layout interfaces and custom widgets, taking advantage of a nice box layout mechanism. But one thing I don’t see is the ability to create new AXUL components by simply composing other AXUL components. (without a hosting Java class)

But why didn’t they choose HTML 5? Ha.

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