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 , LGPL 2003 1.0.0 text editor or Eclipse Python FXML Oracle Corporation October 2011 Netbeans JavaFX GladeXML GNOME , LGPL April 1998 2.10.0 Glade GTK+ GNUstep Renaissance GNUstep , LGPL April 2001 (base) 0.9.0 Gorm, ProjectCenter GNUstep LZX Laszlo Systems , CPL July 2003 4.9 optional (e.g., text editor, Eclipse IDE available) Flash Player 5 or above, DHTML, Java ME announced MXML Adobe Systems , MPL 1.1 March 2004 2.0.1 Adobe Flex or free Flex 3 SDK Flash Player 9 or above Qt Designer Qt Project,The Qt Company , LGPL ? 5.9 Qt Designer Qt QuiX inno:script , commercial June 2005 0.5 Quill UI Designer Internet Explorer, Mozilla based browsers UIML OASIS December 1997 various jUIML, UIML.Net, various XAML Microsoft , Ms-PL November 2006 v2009Microsoft Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) technical documentation set optional (e.g., text editor), Microsoft Expression Blend, Microsoft Expression Design, Visual Studio 2008, Vectropy .NET Framework 3.0 or above (formerly WinFX), XBAPs for WPF and plugins for Silverlight in web browsers XRC wxWidgets , wxWindows Library wxWidgets 2.8.12 optional (e.g., text editor), wxGlade, XRCed, wxDesigner, DialogBlocks wxWidgets-based applications XUL Mozilla Foundation , MPL December 1998 1.0XUL 1.0 specification 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 , W3C 14 March 2006 1.0XForms 1.0 second edition optional (e.g., text editor) Many implementations in browsers, plug-ins, extensions, and servers ZUML Potix 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 XML, ECMAScript, CSS, XPath MXML ActionScript Compiled XML, ECMAScript, CSS Qt/QML C++, JavaScript (Plus many more by third party support) Compiled, interpreted XML QuiX JavaScript Interpreted XML, CSS, JavaScript UIML Various Various 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), Erlang (wxErlang) Various XML XUL JavaScript, Python, C++, Java, Perl 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
See also List of user interface markup languages Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Adobe Flex JavaFX Silverlight, XAML
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