Re: [development] SoC: Multi-site administration through rich XUL client

Chris Johnson wrote:

What are the chief advantages it provides over using Javascript and XMLHttpRequest (i.e. AJAX)? A more rich set of widgets? Better event handling?

It could do all of those things.

I start having wild fantasies about building thin, lightweight PowerBuilder/VisualBasic-like fancy clients running in Gecko browsers with stateful connections to web servers and see the world as my oyster. :-)

Funny you should say that... The idea is that the client runs under the XULRunner runtime and is a cross-platform desktop application. Ben -- Ben "tola" Francis http://hippygeek.co.uk