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Thursday, December 18, 2003

Mozilla as a platform

LinuxInsider's Nigel McFarlane looks at how Mozilla is so much more than an application. He gets it. "Mozilla's trick has been to mash together two concepts: GUIs and XML. The result is XUL, a dialect -- technically an application -- of XML. A document that is XUL describes the GUI of an application in plain text using XML tags like 'toolbar,' 'menu,' 'key' and 'window.' HTML doesn't have these tags. When you display this document, the result is a standard application GUI window, not an HTML page in a browser window. That is a breakthrough."

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