This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote:
>    XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?)

That's platform-independent!  We're talking a binary blob application 
here, so there's no reason it couldn't be distributed as a custom 
XULrunner binary blob for multiple platforms.  Better yet, release the 
source!

>    Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be done in
>    flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML.

Indeed, it's insane and there's absolutely no justification.  I'm sure 
it's just that the new media geniuses wouldn't even know to ask if 
there's another way.

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