Xaml Quotes

Xamlon Web allows developers to be immediately productive in new deployment scenarios with virtually no learning curve... Now developers can use the programming languages they already know to create seamless business applications that deploy via the Web on practically any device or computer in the world. - Paul Colton

XAML is the key innovation. It's what the tools understand natively. - Forest Key

The ability for a designer to export their design in XAML format that can then be imported into Visual Studio [means] the developer doesn't have to spend any time re-creating the great design and can instead just concentrate on adding functionality to the application. If more designers and developers use XAML as a standard way of exchanging information about the user interface, I think we will see a lot fewer boring applications. - Scott Golightly

Sparkle all started around WPF. Four years ago, we started thinking about these concepts. We wanted to make it easier for people to build around that [platform] with XAML. - Forest Key

Mainly we learned that developers, much as they love all the new technology out there like XAML and Avalon... they want to build Internet applications with technology they understand today. - Paul Colton

If there are designers that only use a Mac, then I will not be able to share the XAML that makes up the design with them and I will have to spend a lot of time re-creating their design in code. It could ultimately lead me to look for a different designer that uses a file format that works with my development tool. - Scott Golightly