What Is XUL?
Content Inside: C H A P T E R 1 What Is XUL? 1 The interface is the part of a tool or technology with which the user interacts. For a screwdriver, its the handle. For a bicycle, its the seat, handlebars, pedals, and gear levers. For a web site, its a crafted communication environment that houses the sites content and the navigation devices the user needs to get the content. Jack Davis and Susan Merritt, The Web Design Wow! Book What is XUL? You might conjure up thoughts of a famous Argentinean poet or even a character from a well-known ghost movie. However, the XUL that is the subject of this book refers to the user interface language for the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). It has gained momentum as the language Web developers and programmers should use for creating user interfaces. This is because XUL is easy to learn. For those who are phonetically challenged, XUL is pronounced zool rhyming with cool. Those who lived through the 1980s might remember an anthemic movie where a bunch of guys wearing proton packs run around New York catching ghosts and destroying anything not nailed down to the floor. Many of the themes and the pronunciation of XUL were adopted tongue-incheek from the Ghostbusters movie. Thats OK with usa sense of humor is always a good thing. It reminds us in this browser-eat-browser world that we need to step back and take stock of our efforts. N OT E 70083_CH01I 7/10/01 3:20 PM 2 Essential XUL Programming Figure 1.1 A simple XUL component. XUL, quite simply, is a presentation specification for creating lightweight, crossplatform, cross-device user interfaces. A XUL graphical user interface (GUI) can be lightweight in the sense that there are no huge libraries of widgets to download. XUL interfaces can be cross-platform because they are derived from a generic specification for user interfaces. XUL has the ability to run on different platforms on Internetenabled devices. XUL enables you, the interface developer, to easily create an interface that is as simple ...
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