Comparison of user interface markup languages

The following tables compare general and technical information for some user interface markup languages. Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information.

## Contents

* 1 General information
* 2 Features
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## General information

Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.

| Creator  | License  | First public release date  | Latest stable version  | development environment  | Runtime environment

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avg | Ulrich von Zadow  | Free, LGPL | 2003  | 1.0.0  | text editor or Eclipse | Python
FXML | Oracle Corporation | ?  | October 2011  |  | Netbeans  | JavaFX
GladeXML  | GNOME | Free, LGPL | April 1998  | 2.10.0  | Glade | GTK+
GNUstep Renaissance | GNUstep | Free, LGPL | April 2001 (base)  | 0.9.0  | Gorm, ProjectCenter [1] | GNUstep
LZX | Laszlo Systems  | Free, CPL | July 2003  | 4.9  | optional (e.g., text editor, Eclipse IDE available)  | Flash Player 5 or above, DHTML, Java ME announced
MXML | Adobe Systems | Free, MPL 1.1  | March 2004  | 2.0.1  | Adobe Flex [1] or free Flex 3 SDK [2] | Flash Player 9 or above
Qt Designer | Qt Project,
The Qt Company | Free, LGPL | ?  | 5.9  | Qt Designer | Qt
QuiX | inno:script | Proprietary, commercial | June 2005  | 0.5  | Quill UI Designer | Internet Explorer, Mozilla based browsers
UIML | OASIS | ?  | December 1997  | ?  | various  | jUIML, UIML.Net, various
XAML | Microsoft | Free, Ms-PL  | November 2006  | v2009[2] | optional (e.g., text editor), Microsoft Expression Blend, Microsoft Expression Design, Visual Studio 2008, Vectropy  | .NET Framework 3.0 or above (formerly WinFX), XBAPs for WPF and plugins for Silverlight in internet browsers
XRC | wxWidgets | Free, wxWindows Library[3] | ?  | wxWidgets 2.8.12  | optional (e.g., text editor), wxGlade, XRCed, wxDesigner, DialogBlocks  | wxWidgets-based applications
XUL | Mozilla Foundation | Free, MPL | December 1998  | 1.0[4] | optional (e.g., text editor)  | Gecko-based applications
XFD (user interface)  | Abbott Informatics  | ?  | 2004  |  | JScript .NET, JavaScript | STARLIMS v 10-11
XForms | World Wide Web Consortium | Free, W3C | 14 March 2006  | 1.0[5] | optional (e.g., text editor)  | Many implementations in browsers, plug-ins, extensions, and servers
ZUML  | Potix | free, GPL, commercial | November 2005  | 2.4.0  | text editor or Eclipse | Ajax ZK Framework
| Creator  | License  | First public release date  | Latest stable version  | development environment  | Runtime environment

## Features

Some features of the markup languages.

| Programming language | Treatment  | Web standard

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GladeXML  | C, C++, C#, Python, Ada, Pike, Perl, PHP, Eiffel, Ruby, D | Interpreted, compiled for some languages (deprecated)  | XML
GNUstep Renaissance | Objective-C | Compiled, dynamic binding  | XML
LZX | XML, ECMAScript | Compiled  | XML, ECMAScript, CSS, XPath
MXML | ActionScript | Compiled  | XML, ECMAScript, CSS
Qt/QML | C++, JavaScript (Plus many more by third party support)  | Compiled, interpreted  | XML
QuiX | JavaScript | Interpreted  | XML, CSS, JavaScript
UIML | Various  | Various  | ?
XAML | Interpreted, compiled  | XML, XPath, DOM, JavaScript
XRC | Various  | XML
XUL | JavaScript, Python, C++, Java, Perl | Interpreted, compiled (C++)  | XML, CSS, DTD, RDF, XPath, XSLT, DOM, JavaScript (ECMAScript)
ZUML  | Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy and Python | Interpreted, compiled  | XML, XHTML, CSS
| Programming language | Treatment  | Web standard

## See also

* List of user interface markup languages
* Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
* Adobe Flex
* JavaFX
* Silverlight, XAML

## References

1. ↑ "GNUstep Developer Tools: Project Center". http://www.gnustep.org/experience/ProjectCenter.html.
2. ↑ Microsoft Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) technical documentation set
3. ↑ "wxWindows Library Licence". http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/newlicen.htm.
4. ↑ XUL 1.0 specification
5. ↑ XForms 1.0 second edition

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