Comparison of user interface markup languages
# 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.

## 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 | 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 | 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 or free Flex 3 SDK | 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 | 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 | ? | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 | 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), Erlang (wxErlang) | 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 |
