richardson.balca...@gmail.com schrieb:
I believe my question is, if Mozilla is taking out their app development platform not
'XUL' per se. How would they promote "openness, innovation and opportunity on the
web", only by giving us the opportunity of doing so in extensions on a browser?
What's the strategy? Is not clear where is this going?
XUL was always only a transitional technology as the project discovered
in 1998 that what they would really want to do, using HTML as the
technology to build UI, was not there yet. Nowadays we are getting
closer and closer to being there, and developing Firefox OS and the
needed APIs for all kinds of apps there is one further step on this way.
We sincerely hope that HTML and friends can obsolete XUL in the next few
years.
If you try to use our technology for a new project today, I'd urge you
to try to get as far as possible with HTML, and try to work with us to
bring those pieces to HTML stack that it cannot do today but XUL can.
Not everything will be feasible in the same way on the web, but we want
web apps to become as powerful as native apps in the long run. And in
the mean time, you can use XULRunner underneath your HTML app and fill
in the gaps with XUL/XPCOM technology, until we're able to fill them
with HTML and actual web APIs.
Robert Kaiser
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