Comparison of user interface markup languages

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of user interface markup languages. Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

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
avg	Ulrich von Zadow	LGPL	2003	0.7.0	text editor or Eclipse	Python
GladeXML	GNOME	LGPL	April 1998	2.10.0	Glade	GTK+
GNUstep Renaissance	GNUstep	LGPL	April 2001 (base)	0.9.0	Gorm, ProjectCenter ^[1]	GNUstep
Gul2/Xul	redsofa	GPL	November 2005	2.0	Not required (e.g., text editor)	PHP-GTK 2
LZX	Laszlo Systems	CPL	July 2003	4.0.6	Not required (e.g., text editor, Eclipse IDE available)	Flash Player 5 or above, DHTML, JavaME announced
MXML	Adobe	MPL	March 2004	2.0.1	Adobe Flex [2] or free Flex 3 SDK [3]	Flash Player 9 or above
QuiX	inno:script	Commercial	June 2005	0.5	Quill UI Designer	Internet Explorer, Mozilla based browsers
UIML	OASIS	?	December 1997	?	Vary	Vary
XAML	Microsoft	Commercial	March 2005	.NET Framework 3.0	Not required (e.g., text editor), Microsoft Expression Blend, Microsoft Expression Design, Visual Studio 2008, Vectropy	.NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX), XBAPs for WPF and plugins for Silverlight in internet browsers
XRC	wxWidgets	wxWindows Library Licence	?	wxWidgets 2.8.4	Not required (e.g., text editor), wxGlade, XRCed, wxDesigner, DialogBlocks	?
XUL	Mozilla Foundation	GPL / LGPL / MPL	December 1998	1.0^[2]	Not required (e.g., text editor)	Gecko-based applications
XAL	Nexaweb	Commercial	January 2000	4.5	Not required (e.g., text editor, Eclipse IDE available)	Java JRE 1.1 and up / MSJVM, DHTML
XForms	World Wide Web Consortium	W3C License	14 March 2006	1.0^[3]	Not required (e.g., text editor)	Many- many implementations in browsers, plug-ins, extensions, and servers
ZUML	Potix	GPL	November 2005	2.4.0	text editor or Eclipse	ZK Ajax Framework

Features

Some features of the markup languages.

	Programming language	Treatment	Web standard
GladeXML	C, C++, C#, Python, Ada, Pike, Perl, PHP, Eiffel, Ruby	Interpreted, Compiled (Deprecated)	XML
GNUstep Renaissance	Objective-C	Compiled, dynamic binding	XML
Gul2/Xul	PHP-GTK	Interpreted	XML, CSS
LZX	XML, ECMAScript	Compiled	XML, ECMAScript, CSS, XPath
MXML	ActionScript	Compiled	XML, ECMAScript, CSS
QuiX	JavaScript	Interpreted	XML, CSS, JavaScript
UIML	Vary	Vary	?
XAML	Browser (Silverlight); JavaScript, IronPython, IronRuby, C#, VB.NET, C++/CLI, and J# among others.	Interpreted, Compiled	XML, XPath, DOM, JavaScript
XRC	C++, Python (wxPython), Perl (wxPerl), C# and other .NET languages (wx.NET)	Vary	XML
XUL	JavaScript, Python, C++, Java	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

Comparison of user interface markup languages

General information

Features

See also