[Mono-list] HTML or XAML?

[Helge Hess]

On 12.12.2003, at 08:37, Swaroop C H wrote:
>   I was just reading this article at ZDNet called "Microsoft patents 
> 'HTML
> applications'", the title says it all, really. Out of curiosity, are 
> they
> talking about XAML or just HTML?

It is just regular, signed, IE DHTML and available for several years 
now. This is really not that interesting. You can make a webpage act a 
bit like a regular application by assigning icons and declaring taskbar 
behaviour.
Somewhat similiar to how Unix can fake any file being a regular 
executable by prepending the interpreter marker (#!/usr/bin python).

Notably IE DHTML is heavily extended and you can write pretty complex 
applications using that. For example it does support Drag&Drop in a 
pretty nice way (also used in the OGo Web interface to drag 
appointments and files inside the HTML page).

Anyway, all that doesn't really relate to Mono ;-)

Greets,
   Helge
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