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Retrospective on UI Description Languages, Based on 7 Years Experience with the User Interface Markup Language (UIML)
Marc Abrams, Jim Helms
Abstract
In this position paper, we reflect on the experiences of the project to develop and evolve the User Interface
Markup Language (UIML), starting from its origin in 1997. We have two objectives in our discussion. First,
we suggest one possible vision of what the community of researchers and practitioners working on User Interface
Description Language (UIDL) could achieve. Second, we relate lessons that we learned from UIML in the hope that
other UIDL researchers may avoid reinvention of the wheel.
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