Comparison of user interface markup languages
The following tables compare general and technical information for some user interface markup languages. Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information.
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 | Free, LGPL | 2003 | 1.0.0 | text editor or Eclipse | Python |
| FXML | Oracle Corporation | ? | October 2011 | Netbeans
|
JavaFX | |
GladeXML
|
GNOME | Free, LGPL | April 1998 | 2.10.0 | Glade | GTK+
|
| GNUstep Renaissance | GNUstep | Free, LGPL | April 2001 (base) | 0.9.0 | Gorm, ProjectCenter [1]
|
GNUstep |
| LZX | Laszlo Systems
|
Free, CPL | July 2003 | 4.9 | optional (e.g., text editor, Eclipse IDE available) | Java ME announced
|
| MXML | Adobe Systems
|
Free, MPL 1.1 | March 2004 | 2.0.1 | Flash Player 9 or above
| |
| Qt Designer | Qt Project, The Qt Company |
Free, LGPL | ? | 5.9 | Qt Designer | Qt |
| QuiX | inno:script | Proprietary, commercial | June 2005 | 0.5 | Quill UI Designer | Internet Explorer, Mozilla based browsers |
| UIML | OASIS | ? | December 1997 | ? | various | jUIML, UIML.Net, various |
| XAML | Microsoft | Free, Ms-PL
|
November 2006 | v2009[2] | optional (e.g., Visual Studio 2008, Vectropy
|
.NET Framework 3.0 or above (formerly WinFX), XBAPs for WPF and plugins for Silverlight in internet browsers
|
| XRC | wxWidgets | Free, wxWindows Library[3] | ? | wxWidgets 2.8.12 | optional (e.g., text editor), wxGlade, XRCed, wxDesigner, DialogBlocks | wxWidgets-based applications |
| XUL | Mozilla Foundation | Free, MPL | December 1998 | 1.0[4] | optional (e.g., text editor) | Gecko -based applications
|
| XFD (user interface) | Abbott Informatics | ? | 2004 | JScript .NET, JavaScript | STARLIMS v 10-11 | |
| XForms | World Wide Web Consortium | Free, W3C | 14 March 2006 | 1.0[5] | optional (e.g., text editor) | Many implementations in browsers, plug-ins, extensions, and servers |
ZUML
|
Potix | free, GPL, commercial | November 2005 | 2.4.0 | text editor or Eclipse | Ajax ZK Framework
|
| Creator | License | First public release date | Latest stable version | development environment
|
Runtime environment
|
Features
Some features of the markup languages.
| Programming language | Treatment | Web standard
| |
|---|---|---|---|
GladeXML
|
C, C++, C#, Python, Ada, Pike, Perl, PHP, Eiffel, Ruby, D | Interpreted, compiled for some languages (deprecated) | XML |
| GNUstep Renaissance | Objective-C | Compiled, dynamic binding | XML |
| LZX | XML, ECMAScript | Compiled | CSS, XPath
|
| MXML | ActionScript | Compiled | CSS
|
| Qt/QML | C++, JavaScript (Plus many more by third party support) | Compiled, interpreted | XML |
| QuiX | JavaScript | Interpreted | CSS, JavaScript
|
| UIML | Various | Various | ? |
| XAML | Browser ( J# among others .
|
Interpreted, compiled | XML, XPath, DOM, JavaScript |
| XRC | (wxErlang) | Various | XML |
| XUL | JavaScript, Python, C++, Java, Perl | Interpreted, compiled (C++) | ) |
ZUML
|
Groovy and Python
|
Interpreted, compiled | CSS
|
| Programming language | Treatment | Web standard
|
See also
- List of user interface markup languages
- Adobe Integrated Runtime(AIR)
- Adobe Flex
- JavaFX
- XAML
References
- ^ "GNUstep Developer Tools: Project Center".
- ^ Microsoft Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) technical documentation set
- ^ "wxWindows Library Licence". Archived from the original on 2010-07-02. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
- ^ XUL 1.0 specification
- ^ XForms 1.0 second edition