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What excites me about Firefox OS is how HTML makes it so much easier to programatically lay out all those UI elements. Android's XML layouts are okay with me but look at how there's much less code to be typed in FFOS to achieve the same effect! I guess the same can be said about iOS?

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I personally fell in love with qt qml layouts recently, just because having a layout and styling syntax based off something like JSON rather than XML is so much nicer.

But then again, I hate xml. So much useless overhead.

Ubuntu's phone OS will be using QML, fyi.

Blackberry 10 Cascades is also based on QML syntax, though they implemented their own rendering engine instead of the QML implementation in Qt4.

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