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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by muizelaar on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:01PM (#21367651)
XUL is just themed to look like GTK it's no more native than HTML is.
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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by tomc1985 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:57AM (#21367952)
If whatever’s rendering eventually maps to native API calls I’d consider it native, and I’m pretty sure GTK does native calls. If XUL really did mimic GTK (which I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, a lot of other GTk apps had the same feel as Firefox back when most of its UI was native dialogs) then it’s the best damn mimic job I’ve ever seen
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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by mod50ack on Sunday October 27, 2019 @05:58AM (#21368772)
XUL had bindings to supported native widgetsets.
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Re:No XBL Components Left in Firefox by anoncake on Sunday October 27, 2019 @07:45AM (#21369140)
The important part is how it appears to the user. XUL appears like a proper native program, not like a web page.
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