XAML Extended Attributes

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ATTRIBUTES CONTEXT MENU (free): Adds a
context menu to all files and folders to
quickly modify their system attributes

ATTRIBUTES CONTEXT MENU (free): Adds a
context menu to all files and folders to
quickly modify their system attributes 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

Show your attributes!

Show your attributes! 05/25/2002 08:32 PM

Image Attributes

Image Attributes 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
Questioning width and height values for images.

Experimental attributes

Experimental attributes 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
There have been a number of thoughtful responses to my confessio n, the other day, about cheating on Web standards. Several folks recommended this approach:

<blockquote 
   cite="http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/35/"
   title="Stefano Mazzocchi">
...
</blockquote>

Jim White also made this intriguing proposal:

<blockquote cite="urn:name:Stefano%20Mazzocchi">
..
</blockquote>

Jim pointed me to the IANA registry of URN namespaces, noting that while 'name' is not among those registered namespaces, and the one you can find there -- RFC3043, Personal Internet Name (PIN): A URN Namespace for People and Organizations -- isn't quite right either, these are examples of valid ways to extend an attribute that takes a URI as its value. ...

We need control over attributes

We need control over attributes 02/10/2004 01:18 PM

SourceID/Pi ngID Rollout Expectations. There are four milestones in the upcoming weeks which I wanted to keep everyone appraised of. In the late April/early May timeframe, SourceID and PingID intend to deliver: 1. Version 1.0 Final of SourceID-SSO, with 100% coverage of the Liberty... [SourceID - Discussion]

I'm lookiong forward to a version of SourceID that supports controlling individual attributes of end-user's profiles.  This is crucial.

Safety Attributes

Safety Attributes 04/09/2004 05:30 PM

I am not sure if this particular long term solution to cross-site scripting (XSS) has been discussed yet, but I thought it is worth a mention since I thought of it.  Yes, I have an ego that wants to be polished daily. :-)

The idea is to introduce 'safety' attributes to HTML and XHTML that allows web developers to disable dangerous DHTML features like scripting within elements that contains content from users.  For example:

<div class='.comment' safety='noscript,nostyle'>
comment entered by visitors
</div>

Fine-grained safety settings will allow some scripting features to continue working while disabling others.

Better File Attributes v1.1

Better File Attributes v1.1 04/21/2004 07:36 AM
Better File Attributes is Windows Explorer enhancement that allows file dates to be changed at will. It can manipulate entire file hierarchies. [Shareware $9.95 1 MB]

.NET attributes are more than decoration

.NET attributes are more than decoration 07/05/2002 10:59 PM
CNET Jul 5 2002 10:12PM ET

Update: A Better Finder Attributes 3.5

Update: A Better Finder Attributes 3.5 07/22/2004 09:39 AM
The Finder file attribute utility can now use EXIF data to set the creation dates of digital camera picture files to the time and date that the picture was taken.

A Better Finder ATTRIBUTES — now with
Cocoa!!

A Better Finder ATTRIBUTES — now with
Cocoa!! 03/13/2003 10:17 AM
Publicspace.net has announce versioned 3.0 beta 1 of its "A Better Finder Attributes" Macintosh Finder enhancement. This is the first version of the popular Finder file attribute manipulation utility for Mac OS X and it has been rewritten from scratch to take full advantage of Mac OS X's powerful Cocoa programming interface.

Option-Shift K Apple Hacker Swag!

HTML Tip: Using ALT And TITLE Attributes

HTML Tip: Using ALT And TITLE Attributes 01/10/2003 04:46 AM
Net Mechanic Jan 10 2003 3:29AM ET

Multivalued CSS class attributes

Multivalued CSS class attributes 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
A reader named Jemisa wrote last week with this proposal:

Just another proposition for

<pre class="code" lang="python">
...
</pre>

Why not use

<pre class="code python">
...
</pre>

I know it's less "semantic" than your experimental attribute, but it might be useful (to style python code with different color than perl code for example)

This is a great idea which I at first completely failed to understand. My objections were twofold. On the CSS front, that you'd want to be able to style 'code' things independently of 'python' things. And on the XPath search front, that you'd want to be able to search independently. ...

Changing File and Folder Attributes

Changing File and Folder Attributes 05/19/2004 02:44 AM

Hello XAML

Hello XAML 11/10/2003 11:12 PM
Don creates not one, but two versions of "Hello World" in XAML.  The delicious fragrance of epic battles is in the air.

Ohio Museum Attributes a Purchase to
Praxiteles

Ohio Museum Attributes a Purchase to
Praxiteles 06/22/2004 11:04 AM
If the Cleveland Museum of Art's sculpture of Apollo the Lizard Slayer is authentic, it will be one of the most important ancient bronzes in an American museum.

XML Boulevard Lesson 12 - Well-formed
XML Part 5: Attributes (Continued)

XML Boulevard Lesson 12 - Well-formed
XML Part 5: Attributes (Continued) 01/22/2004 02:02 PM

ABCNEWS.com : Poll: Kerry Weakens on
Issues, Attributes

ABCNEWS.com : Poll: Kerry Weakens on
Issues, Attributes 07/27/2004 04:08 PM
"High stakes convention." .. Kerry drops in polls .. These poll numbers

abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/Vote2004/kerry_poll_040726. html
track this site | 5 links

XML Boulevard Lesson 11 - Well-formed
XML Part 4: Attributes (Continued)

XML Boulevard Lesson 11 - Well-formed
XML Part 4: Attributes (Continued) 01/01/2005 04:31 AM

First XAML, Now MAML

First XAML, Now MAML 07/26/2004 12:50 AM
MAML stands for Microsoft Assistance Markup Language. It's the next step in the evolution of help systems. It looks really cool, and having just spent the week taking apart MSHelp2, I'm wishing I could use it right now.

XAML is for humans

XAML is for humans 11/10/2003 11:12 PM

Don Box: Today, the data needed to initialize an object graph is hidden behind imperative statements in your programming language of choice. That makes it difficult to tease out of the rest of your program without weird markers in the source code to delimit the structure of your code into recognizable pieces.

My previous post on this subject had more to it, but I chickened out and didn't post it.  What the heck, I could be wrong, but... here's essentially what I said.

...

Avalon/XAML First Look

Avalon/XAML First Look 04/14/2005 04:55 PM
Familar with Microsoft's new XAML? I wasn't, until recently.

Xamlon: XAML for .NET 1.1

Xamlon: XAML for .NET 1.1 01/07/2004 02:33 PM

A former colleague/collaborator, Paul Colton, has just released a new product called Xamlon, which provides a simple XAML implementation on top of .NET 1.1 and the Windows Forms framework.  For those not familiar with Paul, he founded LiveSoftware, and created JRun, the first commercial Java Servlet engine -- he and his team went on to invent what became JSP and JSP Tag Libraries (what they called Dynamic Taglets), and CF_Anywhere, a CFML processor on top of their Java Tag framework.  Paul left Allaire after we acquired LiveSoftware, and has been playing around with a lot of ideas, but this one seems pretty cool! 

XAML is the new XML-based user interface programming language that will be part of the Windows Longhorn release in 2006.  Paul clearly liked XAML and thought that developers would be interested in developing with it (albeit much smaller/simpler in scale and richness) today.  This will be an interesting project to track.

 

 

XAML and... Swing

XAML and... Swing 12/30/2003 01:17 AM

Let's see. There's this new language+API. It is, in theory platform independent. It's pretty high level. Below the high-level description, it runs on top of a virtual machine. It's verbose. Some people say it will never work.

Gotta be Swing, right?

How about XAML?

On Saturday Sam commented on a XAML example. He makes a number of good points. Which jump-started earlier XAML-related musings.

XAML will be Windows-only, so in that sense the comparison is stretched. But this is a matter of practice, in theory an XML-based language could be made portable (when there's a will there's a way). XAML was compared a lot to Mozilla's XUL, and rightly so, but I think there are some parallels between it and Swing as well.

One big difference that XAML will have, for sure, is that it will have a nice UI designer, something that Swing still lacks. On the other hand, I think that whatever code an automated designer generates will be horribly bloated. And who will be able to write XAML by hand? And: the problem of "bytecode protection" in Java comes back with XAML, but with a vengeance. How will the code be protected? Obfuscation of XML code? Really? How would it be validated then? And why hasn't anyone talked about this.

And another thing: Sun has shown in the past few years that they've taken a liking to countering Microsoft announcements with some of their own. ie., MS comes out with Web services, they come out with web services. MS does X, Sun does it too, but in Java. One wish: that Sun would ignore XAML and just continue improving Swing, and create a simple, good UI designer for Swing. Supposedly Project Rave will do this... but here's hoping there won't be any course corrections simply to show up Microsoft. Please, pretty please, Sun.

On a related note, Robert says this regarding XAML:

[...] you will see some business build two sites: one in HTML and one in XAML. Why? Because they'll be able to offer their customers experiences that are impossible to deliver in HTML.

Come on, Robert, these days, when everyone's resources are stretched to the limit, when CIOs want to squeeze every possible drop of code from their people, when everyone works 60-hour weeks as a matter of common practice, are you seriously saying that companies will have two teams to develop a single website? Is this Microsoft's selling point? "Here, just retrain all of your people, and double the size and expense of your development team, and you'll be fine."

Of course not. Most companies will have one team, not two. Hence, logically, either people will use it or won't, without a lot of middle ground in between. That leaves two possibilities: 1) XAML will be niche and never really used a lot (think ActiveX, or, hey, even Java Applets!) or 2) XAML will kill HTML.

Which one do you think Microsoft is betting on?

No dynamic XAML?

No dynamic XAML? 11/10/2003 11:11 PM

Let's assume for a moment, that XAML is HTML "done right" for rich clients (suspend disbelief if you have to).  It apparently SVG like elements, if nothing else.  It doesn't have CSS, but apparently there are other ways of solving similar problems being proposed.

Apparently, one can embed small amounts of code in the markup.  Unquestionably controversial, but often handy.  This corresponds roughly to the role that JavaScript plays in HTML... or does it?

What about Dynamic HTML?  Namely the ability to modify the rendering and content of the document on the fly?  Isn't that lost by a compile to bytecode approach?

XAML Tour

XAML Tour 11/11/2003 05:44 PM
So I've described the 5 families of Avalon Elements: Panels, Controls, Shapes, Decorators, & ContentElements.

IE Development: XAML

IE Development: XAML 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Looks like the covers are slowly slipping off - a glimpse of Microsoft's browser strategy focussing on web applications has turned up overnight, courtesy Simon and Eric. What all this is about: XUL, or XML User Interface Language was...

XAML and WinForms

XAML and WinForms 11/11/2003 06:52 PM
Don's post about XAML as CLR object graph persistence...showed off the namespace mapping feature, which leads Werner to speculate about whether you can write WinForms UI from XAML

XAML revealed

XAML revealed 11/05/2003 02:30 PM

Don Box: XAML is just an XML-based way to wire up CLR types no more no less...  XAML is domain-neutral, so while it may be used to create desktop apps, web pages, and printable documents, it could also be used to create CRM apps, blogging backends, or highly concurrent web services provided you had a supporting CLR-based library to do the heavy lifting.

I guess that clears that up.

Longhorn: Controls and XAML

Longhorn: Controls and XAML 12/18/2003 12:58 AM
Longhorn platform applications typically consist of an Application object and a set of user interface pages that you write in a declarative markup language called XAML. The Application object is a singleton and persists throughout the lifetime of the application. It allows your application logic to handle top-level events and share code and state among pages. The Application object also determines whether the application is a single window application or a navigation application. You typically write each user interface page using a dialect of XML named Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). Each page consists of XAML elements, text nodes, and other components organized in a hierarchical tree. The hierarchical relationship of these components determines how the page renders and behaves. You can also consider a XAML page to be a description of an object model. When the runtime creates the page, it instantiates each of the elements and nodes described in the XAML document and creates an equivalent object model in memory. You can manipulate this object model programmatically—for example, you can add and remove elements and nodes to cause the page to render and behave differently.

Feedback about XAML wanted

Feedback about XAML wanted 12/09/2003 02:43 AM

Rob Relyea (program manager for XAML) asks "what is missing from or broken about XAML?"

Data Styling in XAML

Data Styling in XAML 05/07/2004 10:46 AM
Joe Marini has already posted a WinHEC build-ready Longhorn sample. In this sample, Joe uses only XAML to read data from an XML data source and display it using a technique called "Data Styling."

PDC: Some concerns about Avalon, XAML

PDC: Some concerns about Avalon, XAML 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

XAMJ - Alternative to HTML, XAML, XUL

XAMJ - Alternative to HTML, XAML, XUL 06/05/2005 10:57 PM
XAMJ 0.91 Released

Business Executives Rank 'Emotional
Intelligence' More Important Than
Traditional Leadership Attributes

Business Executives Rank 'Emotional
Intelligence' More Important Than
Traditional Leadership Attributes 07/02/2004 06:47 AM
Business Executives Rank 'Emotional Intelligence' More Important Than Traditional Leadership Attributes, Men and Women Equal in Rating Their EI
http://snipurl.com/7esg

New Studies Provides Valuable Data to Support Role of Emotional Intelligence In Developing Effective Leaders For Success In Today's Business World. Two ground-breaking research studies just released find that experienced business leaders rank Emotional Intelligence capabilities as critical to the success of today's leaders. The research studies titled "What Makes A Successful Leader" and "Leaders Speak Out On Emotional Intelligence," were conducted by three experts in the field of Emotional Intelligence and personality type.

Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML

Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML 04/12/2004 11:20 PM
The next version of the Microsoft Windows® operating system, code named "Longhorn", contains an exciting new technology called XAML, which is an acronym for the "eXtensible Application Markup Language". XAML (pronounced zam-el) allows you to specify the user interface portion of your Windows® applications using markup to represent the usual items in an application, such as controls, text, hyperlinks, images, etc. XAML itself is built on top of a technology named Avalon, which brings a compositing, vector-based rendering engine to the Windows desktop.

Commentary: Avalon and XAML Great for
Developers, But...

Commentary: Avalon and XAML Great for
Developers, But... 10/31/2003 10:36 AM

MOBIFORM Software to Help Deliver XAML
to Windows

MOBIFORM Software to Help Deliver XAML
to Windows 01/05/2004 06:51 PM
BC Technology Jan 5 2004 6:34PM ET

XAML IntelliSence Patch for PDC Visual
Studio .NET "Whidbey"

XAML IntelliSence Patch for PDC Visual
Studio .NET "Whidbey" 12/03/2003 12:40 AM
The IntelliSense in the PDC bits while editing XAML had problems inside Style elements as well as when completing tags and reformatting. This patch addresses those issues to improve the developer experience.

MSDN TV: Special Holiday Episode - XAML
Beyond the Basics

MSDN TV: Special Holiday Episode - XAML
Beyond the Basics 12/18/2003 09:45 PM
In this special holiday episode, Chris Anderson and Don Box begin by showing how to use the new XAML programming model for more than just building UI applications with Avalon and end with songs of holiday cheer.
Grok Description matches for XAML Extended Attributes
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DirectX Mesh File to XAML Converter Tool

DirectX Mesh File to XAML Converter Tool 06/11/2004 09:04 PM
Ian Griffiths, not content with using Notepad to create 3D meshes in XAML, provides us this tool to convert from DirectX mesh files, which he hopes will let you use more full-featured tools to create your 3D XAML elements.

Miguel de Icaza on Mono, Ximian/Novell,
XAML

Miguel de Icaza on Mono, Ximian/Novell,
XAML 04/29/2004 12:25 AM
Slashdot Apr 29 2004 5:08AM GMT

Miguel de Icaza on Mono, Ximian/Novell,
XAML

Miguel de Icaza on Mono, Ximian/Novell,
XAML 04/29/2004 12:16 AM

Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers -
Chapter 3: Controls and XAML

Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers -
Chapter 3: Controls and XAML 12/14/2003 10:10 AM
Fundamentally, a XAML page describes the classes that the runtime should create, the property values and event handlers for the instances of the classes, and an object model hierarchy—that is, which instance is the parent of another instance.

Building Data-Bound User Interfaces in
XAML

Building Data-Bound User Interfaces in
XAML 07/23/2004 07:42 PM
Joe Marini Illustrates a new way of building dynamic user interfaces that automatically respond to changes in a data model and update their appearance by using binding relationships between the elements in the UI. This example uses a 100 percent XAML approach to demonstrate these relationships.

Chris Anderson's XAML Editor Tool
Updated for the March CTP

Chris Anderson's XAML Editor Tool
Updated for the March CTP 03/29/2005 06:25 AM
Chris Anderson has updated XamlPad for the March 2005 CTP of Avalon and renamed it AvPad. As a tool for learning and experimenting with XAML/Avalon, it can't be beat.

ABC Amber Image Converter v1.07

ABC Amber Image Converter v1.07 11/01/2003 07:35 PM
There are quite a number of different graphics file formats in use, so often we need a software to use for some image conversions. ABC Amber Image Converter is an advanced tool to convert your image files (BMP, WMF, EMF, ICO, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PCX, PCC, DCX, PBM, PGM, PPM, TGA, etc).The software supports a batch conversion, a run from command line, more than 50 languages and comes with a embedded viewer. [Shareware $19.95 30 Days 1.05 MB]

XAML IntelliSence Patch for PDC
"Whidbey" &
"Longhorn"

XAML IntelliSence Patch for PDC
"Whidbey" &
"Longhorn" 12/03/2003 06:21 AM

XAML Extended Attributes

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