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Web-Style Widgets For Desktop UI

Posted by timothy on from the one-and-the-same dept.

prostoalex writes "Longhorn libraries for UI will include Web-style UI widgets to be used in desktop applications. Michael Weinhardt talks about building inductive user interfaces and general UI guidelines in the MSDN article."

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  1. PHP-GTK? by polyp2000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This kinda sounds like the inverse of PHP-GTK, But... could PHP-GTK be used in this way?

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    1. Re:PHP-GTK? by Fweeky · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Er, no; it's a set of UI elements which happen to look like HTML ones. PHP-GTK's no more relevent here than any other language-toolkit combo.

  2. Hm, where have I heard of this before? by GregChant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hm, where oh where could it have been...