XUL and stuff [was Re: Netscape 6.. ohmygod...]

[Carl Parrish]

Wow very interested in talking to you more about that. I'm writting a 
XUL  / OpenLDAP app right now but haven't tried accessing a db with it 
yet. You might be able to use some of my code though.

Carl P.

Michael Vanecek wrote:

> Yeah, been there. I do all my layout in CSS1/2 (no tables), 
> PHP/XML/MySQL for site application development, and tinker a little 
> with javascript. Since the browsers are becoming more DOM compliant, 
> it would behoove me to learn more Javascript...
>
> Been to the mentioned sites. Good references. I've also been through 
> the xulnote tutorial. I'd like to write a financial application in XUL 
> to replace our Quickbooks (the only reason one of our computers is 
> still infested with MSWindows), so I need to learn how to interface 
> XUL with MySQL and to learn more about server/client relationships 
> from the XUL viewpoint. It'd be nice to have the XUL app on a central 
> server rather than as components of the client, but it's not critical 
> - we have a small network with only a few computers. I'll also have a 
> PHP equivalent too, and maybe a Gnome equivalent as soon as 
> development on Gnome_DB matures... The database will be the same, so 
> it doesn't matter what client I write. I need to brainstorm on ways to 
> abstract the database functions so that I an use one library for all 
> platforms - Gnome, PHP or XUL. It'd be nice to have the core 
> application completely independent of the interface so that any 
> interface can be written to it.
>
> Mike
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> Carl Parrish wrote:
>
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>>> Anyone here doing XUL programming? Documentation is still in its 
>>> infancy and I'm intensly interested in learning how to program with 
>>> it...
>>>
>>> Mike
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>> Mike XUL rocks's if you've done any CSS / JavaScript / XML 
>> programming it's a snap, and if not is still easy to pick up. Have 
>> you been to the following pages?
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>> http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xulref/XUL_Reference.html
>> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/
>> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/samples/
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>> I know they aren't all that easy to get to from the main page. Also 
>> O'Reilly has some pretty good articles at:
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>> http://www.oreillynet.com/mozilla/
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>> And there is a pretty comprehinsive tutorial at
>>
>> http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/
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>> If you need anymore info or want help on something please email me.
>>
>> Carl Parrish.
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