Tag: XUL

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Could_there_be_a_Mozilla_Desktop_Environment_in_the_future_Download_Squad'; Could there secretly be a Mozilla desktop environment in the works? We could always use another competitor in the marketplace, and we would love few things more than if that competitor were the Mozilla Foundation. There's a discussion over at the Mozilla.dev.planning list that has ...

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 ...

Courtesy of that wacky WebMonkey we all know and love is a great (but short) introduction tutorial on how to make your own Firefox extensions. Since this tutorial isn't very long, and many Firefox users will want to get more in depth, WebMonkey links to a few great sites for more comprehensive instructions and information so you can extensionize your own Firefox experience! The links provided are ...

Songbird, the Mozilla-based web-enabled music player that has occasionally been causing a stir since late last year, has finally opened its source repository to the public, making it a really-and-truly open source project. Songbird is still very alpha software, meaning you shouldn't expect much, especially in the speed and stability departments, but for the brave  today's "not-yet-0.2" ...

Michael Robertson's ajaxLaunch is trying hard to keep up the buzz from the launches of its web-based word processor ajaxWrite and drawing app ajaxSketch, and today it's launched ajaxXLS, a web-based spreadsheet app. ajaxXLS looks promising, and will no doubt look familiar to Excel users, but having spent a few minutes with it I can already tell ajaxXLS is far from finished. In fact, it's downright ...

DevBoi is a simple and cool extension with a silly name by Martin Cohen. It's a sidebar for Firefox that gives you quick access to the documentation for HTML (plus entities), CSS, DOM, XUL, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails. All that's lacking is a modern XHTML 1.0 reference (and adding PHP, Java, Python, JavaScript, and so on wouldn't hurt), and perhaps an about:config-style filter box. Hopefully those ...