Re: [tlug] Re: Learning Subtle Sound Differences . . . . .

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

steven smith wrote:
> In what context are you talking about XUL?  I understand there's a lot
> more to firefox than just a browser -- that in essence it's just a large
> XUL application.  Were you talking about that or about something else
> that uses XUL??

I'm talking about writing XUL applications; there's an application
front-end called xulrunner that you can use to write cross-platform
applications in XUL. Firefox and Thunderbird are, as you say, just XUL
applications, and hence most people think of XUL in the context of
writing extensions rather than writing entire applications. But you can
write your own native XUL applications and run them using xulrunner
without going near Firefox or Thunderbird.
(http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner)

For instance, my Songbee (http://songbee.simon-cozens.org/) is run off
of xulrunner. The "Mozilla platform" of XUL, JS and XPCOM, backed up by
xulrunner, would be a great architecture for this sort of flashcard
software.