On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:
> Joost Diepenmaat wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:26:55PM +0100, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:
> >  
> > > Yes, XUL would be nice too :-) Perhaps even nicer, because it is a more 
> > > open
> > > standard, isn't it? I think this is what google uses for all those cool
> > > apps, the spit out recently?
> > 
> > I think google just makes really heavy use of javascript (esp. XMLHTTP
> > see: http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html )
> > 
> > which has the advantage of not being tied to a single implementation (if
> > you do it right).
> 
> I think I've read that they implement it in XUL and then simply automaticly
> translate it to dhtml, but I may be mistaken.

I've never heard that, but it sounds interesting.

> Anyhow, I myself would not find it a problem to have editors that only work
> on mozilla-browsers. On the contrary: it is a plus! I mean, for a web-editor
> there is no excuse for not having installed firefox, is there?

Depends on what you're using the editors for: if you want visitors to
edit some content, why limit yourself to mozilla?

OTOH, the same case can be made against javascript.

Joost.


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