Archive for February, 2005
XUL Everywhere : IE, Opera, Eclipse, Swing !
Another post today (I'm flushing all my "To Blog" entries
from the corresponding sticky on my desktop 
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I happily discovered, this week, that XUL is no more Mozilla / XPFE only.
Many projects are on the way to put XUL into many other
platforms like MS IE, Opera, Swig, Mono, and… Eclipse / SWT !!
I found that the last one is very interessant because it
opens a new way for Rich Client. Maybe the best way : Eclipse
RCP as the Rich Client Platform and XUL as the cross-browser,
cross-platform, cross-media interface description language.
The only thing I don't like with Eclipse is that we are forced
to use the good old method to design interfaces : write code
(and XUL was almost the only thing I like in XPFE). And since
we have choosen Eclipse RCP as our Rich Client Platform, this
news makes me feel good… … Read more
