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RE: User interface programming XUL?

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• Subject: RE: User interface programming XUL?
• From: "Don Park" <donpark@d...>
• Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:14:58 -0700
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• In-reply-to: <20020617002748.GD526@s...>
• Organization: Docuverse

Matt,

I don't think the concept itself is 'ill-conceived'.  I have seen and
built ample evidence of its effectiveness.  For example, it takes only a
minute to build GUI around your favorite command line tool; adding help
and parameter validation would add a few more minutes.  Another example
is Eclipse plug-ins.  While some plug-ins require deep integration with
Eclipse, simple plug-ins can be created using XUL without intimate
knowledge of Eclipse innards.

Use of XUL in Mozilla itself is debateble.  Sure there was a lot of GUI
frontends to create, but I think one could have achieved the same with
some readily available tools.

I think Java needs something like XUL but better.

Best,

Don Park
Docuverse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Gushee [mailto:mgushee@h...] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 5:28 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  User interface programming XUL?
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 05:12:16PM -0700, Don Park wrote:
> > 
> > My opinion of XUL is pretty low at this point.  As I 
> mentioned before, 
> > there is no DTD.  XUL is poorly designed and poorly documented.  I 
> > have
> 
> How about 'ill-conceived'? I'm inclined to think that runtime 
> GUI construction is simply an inappropriate task for XML. The 
> Galeon browser (based on the Mozilla libraries) reportedly 
> achieves greatly improved performance over Mozilla, precisely 
> because it doesn't use XUL.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Gushee
> Englewood, Colorado, USA
> mgushee@h...
> http://www.havenrock.com/
> 
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