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XUL in my memory is a kind of tragedy. It seemed to me to represent a future where GUIs could be programmed on any platform using an HTML-like language. Previou
by kwoff 6y ago
XUL in my memory is a kind of tragedy. It seemed to me to represent a future where GUIs could be programmed on any platform using an HTML-like language. Previously you had to individually write GUIs as applications, using languages like C++ or Java. Then web applications became more popular, and XUL seemed like it could sort of unify all the special applications some day. By roughly 2010, I think HTML5 was taking away some of the appeal of XUL, and at the same time the increase in popularity of smartphones led to a reversion to specially-built "apps". I hope some day there will be a popular "browser app" that everyone builds apps on.
- Yoric 6y agoMozilla made the conscious decision of supporting open standards, which meant pushing for and contributing to HTML5 instead of extending XUL. But yeah, there's still nothing quite as powerful as XUL.