Where is the XAML threat?

Posted May 6, 2004 9:48 UTC (Thu) by simon_kitching (guest, #4874)
In reply to: Where is the XAML threat? by hansl
Parent article: The first Mono beta release

Yes, but I have my doubts this will ever be reliable.

There are vast chunks of Windows functionality missing from Wine (mostly because Microsoft don't provide documentation for many public APIs). And chunks of Wine missing from the current Windows.Forms wrappers. And Microsoft can exploit this if they feel like, just as they did against DRDOS. If the world moves to XAML, and *if* XAML apps commonly depend on Windows.Forms, then I think non-windows platforms are all in deep trouble. But I don't know if this is indeed the case - can anyone say what dependencies xaml apps encountered on the web in a few years time will have?