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Re:XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox by 876978095789789 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:49AM (#35407853)
>tried to adopt it, but it was (a) undocumented with no simple examples, (b) ever-changing, and (c) required you to use the Mozilla build system, even IIRC requiring you to basically build your code as part of the browser tree (I don't recall the exact details on this last point, but it was extremely difficult to use).

you're right, and I almost mentioned some of this. I developed some extensions in 2007-11, and lack of documentation was definitely a big issue.

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Re:XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox by carrja99 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @07:50AM (#35409574)
I don't get it? I was excited about XUL back in 2007 (call me silly) and there was a whole resource site dedicated to it, complete with documentation and examples. XUL Plannet (https://web.archive.org/web/20070607174323/http://www.xulpla...) if I recall it correctly.

Back then, I wrote a pretty slick client for some RESTful API (I think it was a photo browser for flickr).

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