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Mozilla as a Java Platform
Mozilla as a Java Platform
Posted Sep 6, 2005 9:11 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Mozilla as a Development Platform: An Interview with Axel Hecht (O'ReillyNet) by khim
Parent article: Mozilla as a Development Platform: An Interview with Axel Hecht (O'ReillyNet)
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.
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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.