Comments on: Thoughts on XUL Runner http://www.rebron.org/2007/06/11/thoughts-on-xul-runner/ Every day life - Work - Ironman Training Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:51:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: David Kellogg http://www.rebron.org/2007/06/11/thoughts-on-xul-runner/#comment-43596 David Kellogg Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:25:30 +0000 http://www.rebron.org/2007/06/11/thoughts-on-xul-runner/#comment-43596 From the article. "it’s called n|VU and Thunderbird, and Songbird." This is so true. The blending of online-offline has already been done by the Mozilla extended team. They should take credit. From Scott: "For those new to POW, POW’s core is the web server." POW goes beyond being a webserver to being a platform. You can create and entire XULRunner app, even using the database and file system, without knowing a lick of XPCOM. I hope this software inspires others to create a similar platform for all of the developers out there. Dave From the article.
“it’s called n|VU and Thunderbird, and Songbird.”

This is so true. The blending of online-offline has already been done by the Mozilla extended team. They should take credit.

From Scott:
“For those new to POW, POW’s core is the web server.”

POW goes beyond being a webserver to being a platform. You can create and entire XULRunner app, even using the database and file system, without knowing a lick of XPCOM. I hope this software inspires others to create a similar platform for all of the developers out there.

Dave

]]> By: Scott Wickham http://www.rebron.org/2007/06/11/thoughts-on-xul-runner/#comment-43137 Scott Wickham Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:56:07 +0000 http://www.rebron.org/2007/06/11/thoughts-on-xul-runner/#comment-43137 "XUL versus AJAX type offline apps would be a neat exercise" I has already been done. Its called Pow. http://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page For those new to POW, POW's core is the web server. In addition to being able to serve any file from POW, it also uses JavaScript (ECMASCRIPT) as a server side programming language and the final part is Sqlite as the database. And we have created XULrunner versions of it so you can host your AJAX apps on your desktop. “XUL versus AJAX type offline apps would be a neat exercise”

I has already been done. Its called Pow.

http://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page

For those new to POW, POW’s core is the web server. In addition to being able to serve any file from POW, it also uses JavaScript (ECMASCRIPT) as a server side programming language and the final part is Sqlite as the database.

And we have created XULrunner versions of it
so you can host your AJAX apps on your desktop.

]]> By: BSBlog » Blog Archive » What made the web great can make the client great, too. http://www.rebron.org/2007/06/11/thoughts-on-xul-runner/#comment-43128 BSBlog » Blog Archive » What made the web great can make the client great, too. Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:42:38 +0000 http://www.rebron.org/2007/06/11/thoughts-on-xul-runner/#comment-43128 [...] though Rafael Ebron claims that the rich client is dying, his point about offline web apps is important. The primary difference is of course the security and trust model: local apps have [...] […] though Rafael Ebron claims that the rich client is dying, his point about offline web apps is important. The primary difference is of course the security and trust model: local apps have […]

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