Well, then it sounds like a great platform to develop on. As I said, I only have experience working with Adobe AIR, which I really like. Perhaps now I'll take a look at XUL/Gecko.
- jake On 9/28/07, Christof Donat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > after giving a cursory look at XUL here are some > > of the things AIR does that XUL doesn't: > > > > * Built in support for Flex/Flash (Layout/Logic + Fancy Animation/Video) > > Of course you can use any Firefox Plugin - including the flash Player, > Quicktime, Adobe Reader, etc. IIRC there is even going to be an OpenOffice > Plugin. > > > * Many chrome options, > > XUL uses CSS for the chromes with mozilla extensions. What exactly is missing > for you? > > > in window animation, > > You can mix XUL, HTML and SVG and even MathML as you like. You can have a > canvas tag and of course you have JavaScript. Which types of Animations are > missing for you? Ah yes, of course you can use the Flash Plugin as well. > > > incredibly fast rendering speed for windows, > > I have not had any XUL applications up to now where that would have been an > issue. Can you tell me a use case, wher XUL is too slow, but AIR does the > thing? > > > support for native OS features, > > What native OS features are you missing from the Mozilla Platform? > > > simple packaging scheme > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpinstall/ is a good start for help with > packaging XUL applications. I have not user it up to now, but AFAIK that is > what Firefox and Thunderbird use. > > > * Hundreds of desktop application hooks available for your Javascript > > XPConnect gives you access to all XPCom components of the Mozilla Platform. Of > course that is not available for online XUL applications, but for Desktop > Applications you can of course access everything using JavaScript. > > > * Application signing for publishers > > At this point I have to admitt, that I have never needed to think about that > up to now. At least I know that Firefox Extensions are signed so I guess that > the Mozilla Platform does support it. > > > * Industry backing: Adobe, AOL, eBay, Salesforce.com, Akamai, > > O'Reilly, Movable Type > > Are you shure, that the industry backing for the Mozilla platform is bad? From > reading the news I don't get that impression. > > > * Documentation: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript > > Developers Pocket Guide > > The Mozilla Project is one of the best documented pieces of complex Software > available. What exactly are you missing? > > > * IDEs: Flex Builder, Aptana, Eclipse AIR Plugin > > Have a look at http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:IDE > > Christof >
