Hello,
Nigel McFarlane writes in that a new Mozilla XUL
article is out. DevX.com has published Nigel
McFarlane's latest hands-on how-to tech paper titled
"Above and Beyond DHTML Menus".
The table of contents includes:
* Developer Choices for Hierarchical Menus
* Mozilla <menulist> to the Rescue
* Build an XUL-based Menu
* Style Your XUL Menus with CSS
* Special Techniques for Inline Menus
Nigel concludes the DevX.com Mozilla XUL article:
It makes some sense to avoid the agony of building
portable DHTML menus where possible. It's probably
easier to produce a shaky DHTML version for IE, a
clean DHTML version for standards-compliant browsers,
and an industrial strength version like this XUL one
for Mozilla. Servers can always tell the requesting
browser type from the USER-AGENT string in the request
headers anyway, making it easy to serve different
menus for the various client types. Moving your
development effort from lowest-common-denominator
cross-platform DHTML to browser-specific versions
using the best solution for each type certainly makes
the developer's life easier; and, for Mozilla XUL
provides the most flexible and reliable user
experience.
Full story @
http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/20458
or
http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/20458/1954?pf=true
- Gerald
PS: Allow me to repost the DevX Talkback questions:
Do you have a target audience using Mozilla/Firebird
exclusively that can support XUL-only development? Do
you think that XUL is robust enough to become a
standard supported by multiple browsers? When do you
think that might happen?
Let us know your thoughts and post your comments to
xul-talk.
PPS: Yes, Nigel McFarlane is the author of the 700+
pages XUL book titled "Rapid Application Development
with Mozilla". Find out more @
http://xul.sourceforge.net/books.html
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