{"id":168,"date":"2007-05-23T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2007-05-23\/shining-light-on-xul-dark-matter\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T13:45:41","slug":"shining-light-on-xul-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2007-05-23\/shining-light-on-xul-dark-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining Light on XUL Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, roc wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/roc\/archives\/2006\/12\/xul_dark_matter.html\">XUL Dark Matter<\/a>: semi-private intranet or domain-specific applications that are using XUL. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkravingfinkle.org\/blog\/\">Mark Finkle<\/a> and I are setting out to try and get an estimate of the size and needs of this community, and how changes to XUL (especially in the Mozilla 2 timeframe) could help or hurt them.<\/p>\n<p>Next month Mark will be in <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Japan\/FxDevCon\/Summer2007\/English\">Tokyo<\/a> and I will be in <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/DeveloperDays\/ParisJune2007\">Paris<\/a> for the week surrounding the Mozilla Developer Days. I am very interested in meeting up with developers of these semi-private XUL applications. If you are or know one of these developers, please encourage them to <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/contact\/\">contact me<\/a> so we can talk.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the specific questions I&#8217;m trying to answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did you choose XUL?\n<li>Why was HTML insufficient for your needs?\n<li>If we added specific features of XUL to HTML, would you use HTML instead? e.g.:\n<ul>\n<li>Specific UI controls easily available\n<li>Templates\n<li>Overlays\n<li>Native Look and Feel\n  <\/ul>\n<li>How do you control the version of Mozilla your users view your app with? Do you have concerns about the future stability of XUL?\n<li>Do you use XBL?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, roc wrote about XUL Dark Matter: semi-private intranet or domain-specific applications that are using XUL. Mark Finkle and I are setting out to try and get an estimate of the size and needs of this community, and how changes to XUL (especially in the Mozilla 2 timeframe) could help or hurt them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,31],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","tag-mozpad","tag-toolkit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}