Tag: BOXELY

On Wednesday AOL (this blog's parent company) released AIM 6.0 for Windows. The first major update to the popular instant messaging program since AIM Triton a year ago, AIM 6.0 comes with another visual update and a few new features.Some of the features are ones we've been enjoying a long time in our other IM clients, like IM logging, but I'm finding them pretty well-executed. AIM now supports up ...

One thing I didn't know about AIM Triton before now is that the whole thing is built on AOL's Boxely, a toolkit for building full-fledged desktop apps with JavaScript and XML. This probably sounds familiar, especially if you're familiar with Mozilla's XUL (which Firefox is built on) or Microsoft's Avalon/XAML. Boxely was created by notable Netscape and Firefox developer Joe Hewitt. Hewitt has ...