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Best of both worlds - linking of XUL to x3usgp
Andreas Muller, Peter Forbrig
Abstract
In this paper we discuss an approach linking XUL specifications to our own X3USGP (XML-based User Interface
Specification and Generation Process, 3 languages) concept. This linking is intended to combine the main
advantages of both approaches. On the one hand it will be presented how the real device independence of
the X3USGP concept and the easy handling concrete specifications by XUL can be combined. On the other hand
it will be shown that she disadvantages of both solutions: the restriction to virtual GUI s of the XUL approach
and the complicacy of specification of the interaction behavior on a very abstract level of the X3USGP concept
can be eliminated. The main focus is on the device-independent result of the specification of user interfaces and on a
simple
humanlike handling of the specification process. Furthermore a transparent generation process to the resulting user
interface without the necessity of proprietary generation tools for each possible target-device is supported.
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