[DotGNU]User Interfaces

[Adam Theo]

I've been thinking about user interfaces today, dredging up alot of my 
old ideas. Here's what I think the best option is for user interfaces of 
the future to be built on.

I think there needs to be a universal, platform-independant was of 
defining a user interface. Probably using an XML document to define it 
for each application, and they all share the same XML vocabulary so they 
can be interchangeable. This is what Mozilla has done, I believe, 
although I forget the name or the details.

However, while this spec should remain simple and easily 
learnable/implimentible, it should also be increadibly flexible in what 
it allows application and skin/theme developers to do. I think the best 
example we have today of a very flexible interface is the web with HTML.

However, HTML sucks, and as many have stated was never meant to deliver 
applications. HTML cannot be used. But a HTML-inspired, XML-improved, 
well thought out spec could be created that used a web-like interface to 
allow maximum flexability to developers and users.

It would be better than HTML because we would make it that way.

Just another out-of-the-blue thought from Theo.

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