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Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform

Posted by timothy on from the it-sure-works-for-me dept.

ceswiedler writes "Salon is running a story about Mozilla's potential dominance as a platform for application development. They discuss the community development centering around Mozilla, and point out that its cross-plaform GUI environment is 'exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against Netscape. It didn't want Netscape around, because Netscape was becoming a platform.' In what might be a Salon first, they even include a reference to a Slashdot comment by SkyShadow."

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  1. Tutorial here by Cap'n+enigma · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to get an idea of what is possible, check out this tutorial.
    http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xult u/

    I played with it about a month back and was amazed at how easy it makes GUI development.

  2. Re:Mozilla vs. Netscape by aengblom · · Score: 5, Informative
    Add in pop up blocker to Netscape 7:

    (it exists. I think this is it)

    Download the adblocker.xpi file (Shift+click to download). When you download the adblocker.xpi file in Netscape 7, it will add .txt to the filename (adblocker.xpi.txt). Before saving the file, remove .txt from the filename and save the file to disk. Then in Netscape 7 click File | Open to install.

    In Netscape 7 click Edit | Preferences | Advanced - Scripts & Windows to unselect or select the Open unrequested windows

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