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> Mozilla need to [...] build a new browser See The Book of Mozilla, chapter 11. >and a “browser toolkit” to let other people build their own XULRunner w
by pdenton 5y ago
> Mozilla need to [...] build a new browser
See The Book of Mozilla, chapter 11.
>and a “browser toolkit” to let other people build their own
XULRunner was essentially this.
- eloisant 5y agoXULRunner was mostly like Electron before Electron. And it could have take succeeded before Electron arrived if Mozilla didn't decide to let the project die.
- fault1 5y agoThe problem is that XUL just didn't work very well. It was one of the reasons Apple decided to go with forking KHTML for the basis of webkit, and Google decided to with forking webkit for the basis of Chromium.