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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by zerkten on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:14PM (#21366244)
XAML, but it Microsoft-specific. While not completely uniform its use does extend across desktop and mobile. I wouldn't make the argument that it's intuitive or simple, but it is powerful.
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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by zamalek on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:24PM (#21367149)
WPF is open source[1], but there isn't any effort to port it as far as I know. WPF also had a few warts compared to Silverlight.

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/

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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by pjmlp on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:40PM (#21366409)
JavaFX and QML are pretty much based on XAML.
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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by zaphirplane on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:03PM (#21367660)
Xaml and Javafx where released within 6 months of each other I kinda expect parallel implementation rather than copying. Just form the dates in Wikipedia
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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by pjmlp on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:50AM (#21368232)
JavaFX was initially J3, and then it was rebooted into XAML like.

Also you're forgetting Longhorn SDK was available as preview before the project was canned.

But yeah just conspiracy theories from my side.

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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by Marazan on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:10AM (#21368283)
MXML. The Markup system for Adobe Flex is almost certainly the inspiration for both.
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