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On another note, XULRunner was a JS runtime with XUL for UI markup, like an early Electron. It's a shame the project was scrapped, I really enjoyed writing XUL+
by tomc1985 9y ago
On another note, XULRunner was a JS runtime with XUL for UI markup, like an early Electron. It's a shame the project was scrapped, I really enjoyed writing XUL+ES5 and seeing XML become native widgetry. (It's the platform that Firefox was initially built on, I don't know how much of it is still there now)
Bring back XULRunner :'( That project was way ahead of its time
- MrAlex94 9y agoXULRunner was a great piece of tech! > (It's the platform that Firefox was initially built on, I don't know how much of it is still there now) Looks like it was completely removed in this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221724 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221724 Although I suppose some form of it is used in Firefox now (although I imagine XUL will get removed some time after XBL has been replaced with WebComponents).
- tomc1985 9y agoI wonder what kind of effort would be required to port it to node/V8? IIRC XULRunner's main handicap was relying on Moz's older-gen JS engine
- dom96 9y agoI would personally be interested in using XULRunner's innards to create a dependency-less cross-platform GUI framework (as a C library ala libui). Does anyone know how easy that would be and where I should start looking?
- maxpert 9y agoI wonder if someone actually just made a Electron equivalent from the XUL + ES6 combination.