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[edit] Regarding Boxely

It is the brainchild of Joe Hewitt of Firefox and Firebug fame. He created it, when he worked at AOL. If I remember correctely, he did not like the path they took it on after he left AOL, but basically it is something like XUL, with the advantage of being more modern, taking things into account that were learned from XUL shortcomings. Maybe a "cleaner XPFE implementation".

He wrote technical stuff about it here (part 1, part 2 and 3 on the same page, read it from below to top): http://www.joehewitt.com/archive.php?month=2005-04#000195

The AOL instant messenger is (was?) programmed in it.

I never used it (Boxely nor the IM) however, since I am a fan of XUL since the early days and feel, that it is not supported, not marketed enough. Should mozilla.org have marketed it better, we clearly would have more opensource power against the stuff MS and Adobe are coming up now. Though, honestley I feel, that in the long run, XAML and Silverlight (or what is it called) will dominate the world, as soon as web-developers realize the power of .NET on the server (and the client !), as soon the open source guys do not need to shift along (instead they use Mono, because it's there). Just remember the days of websites, which are IExplorer only. I still come around them then and when. It will be the same in five years. Opensource _might_ have had a slight chance, if the folks at mozilla.org would have done more marketing on the technical side instead of trying to be chique and look relaxed, while jumping on the corporate bandwagon.

Back in the days, Microsoft needed an HTML browser, simply, because HTML was there to use. Now they created XAML, Silverlight, .NET and *this* is, what will be there on the Windows Desktops _and_ on the Windows Servers. And this is what will be used. It's got more power. Too bad. I hate the tought. I want to be free, that's why I think, that manners are important. And the standards are those manners. 62.68.174.209 04:33, 15 September 2007 (PDT)

[edit] Mozilla Python Project

I wonder what the Mozilla Python binding's status is. They wanted to add Python as an additional XUL scripting language (in addition to JS). Now that would make POW so much hotter. Django anyone ? ;-)