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copied!<p>I have already addressed this question to some extent <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2962874/what-are-the-open-source-alternatives-to-wpf-xaml">here</a>.</p> <p><strong>The pros/cons of XUL are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>it's open</li> <li>it's cross platform</li> <li>it's well established with a large community</li> <li>it still basically has to be run in a browser that supports XUL (firefox)</li> <li>one of the comments from my question stated that XUL is a bad choice because firefos is buggy</li> </ul> <p><strong>The pros/cons of XAML are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>it'll work on Windows/Mac</li> <li>it has a well established drag-drop IDE (VS 2010) to create GUIs</li> <li>it has a massive support community</li> <li>it's closed source</li> <li>it's a closed platform, IE. it not an open standard (not covered under ECMA like .NET and C#)</li> <li>there are legal issues regarding the use on non microsoft/mac plagforms (see my post)</li> <li>it requires either a browser with a the silverlight plug-in or the .NET framework to use it on the desktop</li> <li>it's developed/controlled by MS. This isn't an attempt to troll. Seriously, look it up on google. There are a lot of people who are suspicious of MS's intent behind creating XAML and it has garnered a lot of negativity behind the platform. It might be worth taking into consideration.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The pros/cons of MXML:</strong></p> <ul> <li>it's cross platform</li> <li>it's closed source</li> <li>it runs on a closed platform</li> <li>it requires adobe flash (which, a lot of people claim is a dying platform now that Apple is rejecting to support/allow it).</li> <li>it requires a browser with a plug-in</li> </ul> <p><em>Note: I can't really say much about MXML because this is the first time I've heard about it. I just pointed out the obvious pros/cons for completeness. I'll have to research it and add an entry to in the question I linked.</em></p>

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