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Mozilla as a Development Platform: An Interview with Axel Hecht (O'ReillyNet)
Edd Dumbill talks
with Axel Hecht, a member of Mozilla Europe's board of directors, and a
major contributor to the Mozilla project, on O'ReillyNet. "ED:
Are there any recent technical changes that have helped Mozilla become a
more viable platform? AH: There is a considerable amount of energy
going into XULRunner these days. This is the platform that we will port our
applications to. We are going to start with Firefox, but there are already
people actively using the IRC client Chatzilla as an XULRunner
application. XULRunner will include Gecko and a set of other modules usable
for application creation."
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Mozilla as a Development Platform: An Interview with Axel Hecht (O'ReillyNet) Posted Sep 5, 2005 17:45 UTC (Mon) by patipati (guest, #28059) [Link] Mozilla is useless as a development platform.No, I'm not a disgruntled Windows user. I use Linux mostly, and off the top of my head, don't remember if this was a Linux or Windows problem.. it may be both. Attention-getting statement aside, heres the prob:
Almost 2 years ago, I tried using Mozilla as my
I have received sporatic bugzilla emails from others
And without such notice, I'm not inclined to
I do use Mozilla to browser news and information,
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Mozilla as a Development Platform: An Interview with Axel Hecht (O'ReillyNet) Posted Sep 5, 2005 18:35 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Mozilla is useless as a development platform. Ehm, why ? Almost 2 years ago, I tried using Mozilla as my browser of choice to develop basic JAVA code linked on a web page. This was (is?) absolutely impossible. The cache refused to update the screen when I did a reload. It kept seeing the first java it loaded. In outher words you've So... your rant is relevant... how exactly ? It looks to me like refusal to use GCC since GTK+ compiled with GCC does not suit you and you like FCL better... Choice is yours, of course, but how the GCC is related to your GTK+ frustration ?
Mozilla as a Java Platform Posted Sep 6, 2005 9:11 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] You are completely right. The original poster is not even using Firefox code, since Java runs in a separate, Sun-provided plugin.For the record, I usually disable Java, since it provides little of interest and just pollutes my browsing. Even worse with Flash, but there are some lame sites which require it. I hope XUL does not become the next major annoyance.
Mozilla as a Java Platform Posted Sep 6, 2005 15:42 UTC (Tue) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link] my understanding is that XUL is not something to be downloaded from random servers and run locally (like Java, Javascript, Flash, etc), but instead is a platform to use to write cross-platform client-side apps (more like Perl, etc)
Mozilla as a XUL Platform Posted Sep 6, 2005 15:55 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] After seeing things like this: http://robin.sourceforge.net/, I'm not so sure.
Mozilla as a Development Platform: An Interview with Axel Hecht (O'ReillyNet) Posted Sep 6, 2005 11:46 UTC (Tue) by gallir (guest, #5735) [Link] So, mutatis mutandi, if your selected Java platform does not allow you todevelop .Net/C# application, itis not a development platform neither. I can't help but say you have no idea of what is a "Development Platform". You have no idea of what is free/libre/open source software and what isn't, neither.
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