I'm copying this to the HumanMarkup TC list because Len Bullard was
named to the Web 3D Consortium Board, and mentioned that there had
been some moves to build a z-axis into SVG for 3D, and I would like
to know what this list sees in that.

Ciao,
Rex


>At the end the "Event Loops, XSLT and XForms" section of Kurt's
>latest newsletter he mentions using SVG as the principal language for
>GUIs on the internet, which definitely strikes chord with what I've
>been pitching. I'll be talking about using SVG to create Declarative
>UIs at the XML DevCon later this week.
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>The word is out that the next MS OS will be using an XML based Vector
>Graphics language to create its UI, and will render to DirectX, so
>talking about using SVG to do the same for other platforms is the way
>to go. It will definitely make cross platform UIs a whole lot easier
>than the current HTML model. And don't get me going about XUL. It
>is good, and can be used in this model, but it would need to be
>rendered to SVG, not directly to the graphics API layer. This way
>you could create your own UI elements, mix them with XUL, and have
>them rendered down to the same language before going to the graphics
>API.
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