XULRunner does not require firefox (or other Mozilla based browsers) to run. It's a standalone framework for building rich client apps (Yes. even richer then AJAX). It looks sweet and perfect for the job of an admin tool. More info can be found here: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner On 5/3/06, Khalid B <kb@2bits.com> wrote:
On 5/3/06, Chris Johnson <chris@tinpixel.com> wrote:
Boris Mann wrote:
This is interesting. The XUL client as Drupal installer? Kind of like some of the MySQL remote config/admin tools? It's an interesting direction, certainly.
I only know a little about XUL. What are the chief advantages it provides over using Javascript and XMLHttpRequest (i.e. AJAX)? A more rich set of widgets? Better event handling?
I get the impression XUL is much lighter than Java, but it does not appear to have stateful connections. Or does it?
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. :-)
So for the XUL n00bs among us (that would be me), what's it buying us here?
Chris
XUL is cool. See this demo for it to know what it can do.
http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul
My initial objection is that XUL is Mozilla only. With Mozilla having only 10% market share (outside tech community), it is not a solution that is cross browser enough to build things on.
However, the new piece of info me is that they made "XULRunner" out of it which is cross platform and browser independant.
This *may* change things a bit.
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