Comparison of user interface markup languages
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of user interface markup languages. Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
[edit] General information
Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.
| Creator | License | First public release date | Latest stable version | Development environment | Runtime environment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| avg | Ulrich von Zadow | LGPL | 2003 | 0.60 | text editor or Eclipse | Python |
| GladeXML | GNOME | LGPL | April 1998 | 2.10.0 | Glade | GTK+ |
| Gul2/Xul | redsofa | GPL | November 2005 | 2.0 | Not required (e.g. text editor) | PHP-GTK 2 |
| LZX | Laszlo Systems | CPL | July 2003 | 4.0.6 | Not required (e.g. text editor, Eclipse IDE available) | Flash Player 5 or above, DHTML, JavaME announced |
| MXML | Adobe | MPL | March 2004 | 2.0.1 | Adobe Flex [1] or free Flex 3 SDK [2] | Flash Player 9 or above |
| QuiX | inno:script | Commercial | June 2005 | 0.5 | Quill UI Designer | Internet Explorer, Mozilla based browsers |
| UIML | OASIS | ? | December 1997 | ? | Vary | Vary |
| XAML | Microsoft | Commercial | March 2005 | .NET Framework 3.0 | Not required (e.g. text editor), Microsoft Expression Blend, Microsoft Expression Design, Visual Studio 2008, Vectropy | .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX), XBAPs for WPF and plugins for Silverlight in internet browsers |
| XRC | wxWidgets | wxWindows Library Licence | ? | wxWidgets 2.8.4 | Not required (e.g. text editor), wxGlade, XRCed, wxDesigner, DialogBlocks | ? |
| XUL | Mozilla Foundation | GPL / LGPL / MPL | December 1998 | 1.0[1] | Not required (e.g. text editor) | Gecko-based applications |
| XAL | Nexaweb | Commercial | January 2000 | 4.5 | Not required (e.g. text editor, Eclipse IDE available) | Java JRE 1.1 and up / MSJVM, DHTML |
| XForms | World Wide Web Consortium | W3C License | March 14th 2006 | 1.0[2] | Not required (e.g. text editor) | Many- many implementations in browsers, plug-ins, extensions and servers |
| ZUML | Potix | GPL | November 2005 | 2.4.0 | text editor or Eclipse | ZK Ajax Framework |
[edit] Features
Some features of the markup languages.
| Programming language | Treatment | Web standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GladeXML | C, C++, C#, Python, Ada, Pike, Perl, PHP, Eiffel, Ruby | Interpreted, Compiled (Deprecated) | XML |
| Gul2/Xul | PHP-GTK | Interpreted | XML, CSS |
| LZX | XML, ECMAScript | Compiled | XML, ECMAScript, CSS, XPath |
| MXML | ActionScript | Compiled | XML, ECMAScript, CSS |
| QuiX | JavaScript | Interpreted | XML, CSS, JavaScript |
| UIML | Vary | Vary | ? |
| XAML | Browser (Silverlight); JavaScript, IronPython, IronRuby, C#, VB.NET, C++/CLI, and J# among others. | Interpreted, Compiled | XML, XPath, DOM, JavaScript |
| XRC | C++, Python (wxPython), Perl (wxPerl), C# and other .NET languages (wx.NET) | Vary | XML |
| XUL | JavaScript, Python, C++ | Interpreted, Compiled (C++) | XML, CSS, DTD, RDF, XPath, XSLT, DOM, JavaScript (ECMAScript) |
| ZUML | Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy and Python | Interpreted, Compiled | XML, XHTML, CSS |
| Programming language | Treatment | Web standard |
