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Thoughts on XULRunner, Part Two: One XULRunner to Rule Them All

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

In part one of "Thoughts on XULRunner" I discussed why XULRunner is of strategic value to Mozilla Corporation and the community at large. Assuming (with a rather optimistic leap of faith) that anyone besides me is convinced that it would be worthwhile to turn XULRunner into a fully fledged Rich ...

Thoughts on XULRunner, Part One: Why XULRunner?

Friday, August 8th, 2008

The "Firefox Plus Summit" last week was a wonderful event, bringing together 400 odd members of the Mozilla community, from core Mozilla developers to localizers from around the globe. For me, the key lesson of the summit was the continued high level of interest in Mozilla as a platform. This ...

The Runtime Wars (Aka XULRunner’s Exaggerated Demise)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

"I keep telling people that Firefox is just a measly stub built on XULRunner, but they don't believe me. They claim that Mozilla stopped supporting XULRunner and I'm telling lies." This comment was made to me by Benjamin Smedberg, who is the driving force behind XULRunner, Mozilla's platform for building portable, ...