I have no data about the use of XUL for other applications than FF. But ZK has adopted it (http://www.zkoss.org/) and ZK seems to have some uptake (see there references here http://www.zkoss.org/whosusingzk/).
The number of Add-ons for Firefox is amazing. I guess that it is easier write a Firefox add-on than an Eclipse plug-in, but we have to check. Jochen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Wilson Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:08 AM To: E4 developer list Cc: E4 developer list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Declaritive UI and XUL To be clear: I wasn't diss'ing the use of XUL for building Firefox/Lightning plug-ins. I was asking "Has it been used to build a lot of other applications?". re: four times more than ... Eclipse -- Do you believe that there is something inherent in the framework that caused this, or is it just that more people care about browsers than IDEs? McQ. "Jochen Krause" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ct.com> To Sent by: "E4 developer list" eclipse-incubator <[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] rg> clipse.org cc Subject 04/21/08 05:36 PM RE: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Declaritive UI and XUL Please respond to E4 developer list <eclipse-incubato [EMAIL PROTECTED] org> To me declaritive UI is not that much about design wins, it is more about providing people that are used to work with markup a way to create user interfaces. JavaScript is also in the mix, it seems like an obvious place to have a look at. I had a brief look at the amount of extensions that are available for Firefox, and it seems to be 4756 add-ons. This is four times more than the amount of plug-ins that I am aware of for Eclipse. Probably most of the extensions use XUL, but I don't know that for sure. Jochen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Wilson Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:31 PM To: E4 developer list Subject: Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Declaritive UI and XUL I read through the XUL doc at one point, and spent some time playing with the tutorial, but that's about it. At the time, it seemed reasonable, but I didn't see a lot of design wins. Is XUL getting traction? McQ. "Jochen Krause" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ct.com> To Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] eclipse-incubator rg> [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc clipse.org Subject [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] 04/17/08 06:07 PM Declaritive UI and XUL Please respond to E4 developer list <eclipse-incubato [EMAIL PROTECTED] org> Has anybody in this group already had a closer look at XUL? It would make a quite compelling story if the Mozilla Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation would use a common declarative UI language. XUL seems to be closely aligned with the DOM, a goal that I have also heard for e4. I know that this would seriously limit the degrees of freedom available to us. But if we consider XUL a possible way to go we may want to reach out to the Mozilla community for the summit. They also have a declarative databinding framework. Jochen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jochen Krause Tel: +49-721-664733-0 http://innoopract.com ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev
