DeveloperWorks Article: Create Web Applets with Mozilla and XUL

Hi,

  Aussie Nigel McFarlane (author of the upcoming 700+
page XUL Thriller) wrote up an article for IBM
developerWorks titled "Create Web applets with Mozilla
and XML: Mozilla's simple and flexible XUL saves time
when building Java-less applets" that opens with the
following executive summary:

  To go beyond simple HTML, historically the only
options have been to use Java or plugins. Now, you
have a new way -- write and display applications in
XML. The Mozilla runtime provides such a mechanism. In
this article, Nigel McFarlane introduces XUL (the XML
User-interface Language). XUL is set of UI widgets
with extensive cross-platform support that are
designed for building UI elements for applications
that have traditional, non-HTML UIs.

  After answering the perennial newbie question "Why
XUL?" Nigel shows off a XUL example for a
trouble-ticket system and comments:

  This listing is hardly larger than a single Java
class, and yet it is an application's entire UI. XUL
provides convenient brevity. The tags, like toolbar,
menu, textbox, and radiogroup are refreshingly simple
-- no 3GL calls are required to
XCreatePixmapFromBitmapData() or other low-level
agony.
                     
  Full story @
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-appmozx/

  - Gerald


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