Ray Hauge wrote:
I keep hearing about XUL, and I was wondering what the opinion of the masses
was on this subject for an internal application where the browser is
pre-determined.
From my point of view I, having only read about it and not used it, is that
XUL would make your applications look more like a desktop application. Some
of the widgets they provide come in handy, like tables that can sort
themselves instead of using AJAX/another page hit.
The down sides that I see is there would be a 99.999% chance of a learning
curve for any new developers that come into the company. Also, I'm not sure
if XUL would cause extra programming overhead than regular HTML/JS.
XUL definitely contains a huge learning overhead plus a lot of getting
used to. In Firefox, at least, XUL is very difficult to debug and has
given me a lot of headaches. On the other hand, you can do far, FAR more
with it than with Javascript, including reading and writing to local
files and altering the browser itself. If you want to release an
extension for Firefox, you'll have a lot more freedom with XUL if you
can get over the initial hump and your program won't necessarily be
*too* big.
--Daniel
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