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This isn't too far from Firefox's use of XUL.

• spolu 13y ago
  Indeed. Main difference is the API we expose to JS. XUL use is really UI oriented. Here we want to control the entire browser through JS.
  • nephyrin 13y ago
    Gecko exposes a large number of its interfaces to JS, and the entire Firefox frontend is written as such: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/content/browser.js http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/c...
    • spolu 13y ago
      Do you have access to cookies, localStorage from JS?
      • lucian1900 13y ago
        Yes. Any XPCOM object is usable from JS that runs inside Firefox chrome and most things are XPCOM objects.