[xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Gerald Bauer
Hi, The blogsphere is a buzz to discuss the question "Is Mozilla XU Development too hard?". Dan comments: It’s not too hard. They just don’t know that it exists. If they’ve heard of XUL, they think it’s Netscape’s proprietary DHTML stuff. It’s a PR problem. Neil Deakin (of XUL Pla

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Markus Fischer
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:05:55AM -0800, Gerald Bauer wrote : > Ken Walker writes in his blog story: [shortened Ken Walkers blog] > [...] What I didn?t > see (as a browser end user) was that the entire > browser itself was being rendered with the Gecko > engine?a clever, intuitive application f

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Mike Hostetler
Connecting XUL with a more flexible language such as PHP is also very hard. When I first started out on my journey to find a way to accomplish this, I ran into a number of problems. It was after a great deal of searching, reading some hard to find list posts, and a great deal of experimentation I

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Charles Goodwin
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 20:51, Mike Hostetler wrote: > Connecting XUL with a more flexible language such as > PHP is also very hard. That's one of the things that the project I work on addresses - it mandates UI and application separation where the UI is in XWT's form of (don't sue me) XUL and the a

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Markus Fischer
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:31:18PM +, Charles Goodwin wrote : > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 20:51, Mike Hostetler wrote: > > Connecting XUL with a more flexible language such as > > PHP is also very hard. > > That's one of the things that the project I work on addresses - it > mandates UI and appli

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Charles Goodwin
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 22:49, Markus Fischer wrote: > I am not sure if I'm following this correctly; forgive me if not. > > The link would be to use the XmlHttpRequestObject [1] (sp?) when you > start your (Mozilla) XUL application. You then send your GET/POST > requests to the serv

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Markus Fischer
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:31:18PM +, Charles Goodwin wrote : > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 20:51, Mike Hostetler wrote: > > Connecting XUL with a more flexible language such as > > PHP is also very hard. > > That's one of the things that the project I work on addresses - it > mandates UI and appli

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Markus Fischer
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:05:55AM -0800, Gerald Bauer wrote : > Ken Walker writes in his blog story: [shortened Ken Walkers blog] > [...] What I didn?t > see (as a browser end user) was that the entire > browser itself was being rendered with the Gecko > engine?a clever, intuitive application f

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Gerald Bauer
> But I completely agree that a proper > first-user friendly > documentation is definitely missing. Let's hope the new 800-page Mozilla XUL book by Nigel McFarlane upcoming any minute now will break new ground and fill the gap left by the last two XUL books, that is, "Essential XUL Programming"

Re: [xul-talk] Is Mozilla XUL Development too hard?

2003-12-03 Thread Markus Fischer
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:03:06PM -0800, Gerald Bauer wrote : > > But I completely agree that a proper > > first-user friendly > > documentation is definitely missing. > >Let's hope the new 800-page Mozilla XUL book by > Nigel McFarlane upcoming any minute now will break new > ground and fil