Web Applications with Mozilla's XUL? 23
An Anonymous Coward's idle
musings inspires this query: "Web-based applications are a hot
topic, right now, but sometimes HTML is too simple for your
applications. Using a cross-plataform, more powerful and efficient UI
like Mozilla's XUL would be great." XUL is more an interface
description language rather than an application language, as it still
uses Javascript to handle application processing. It would be
interesting to see if future browsers (or future versions of existing
browsers) would add XUL bindings for other languages like PHP, Perl,
or even Visual Basic if such a thing interests you.
This is why developing for the web sucks (Score:3, Insightful)
Everyone and their momma want their new and old software to be "web-enabled". What a great idea - someone invents a great concept for browsing hypertext documents with images, and hey... ho we all find ourselves being forced to develop applications for it! Of course web browsers, being web browsers, were never intended for running applications so the market place is now plastered with different technologies to make the web browser a better platform for
I hate developing for the web for two reasons primarily:
1. The user experience is seldom exactly what you want because, well.. web browsers are web browser - hypertext and images, remember! Good thing someone invented the web - writing gopher applications would probably stink even more.
2. You write the GUI in HTML or XML/XSL whatever, then you have your clientside scripting in javascript or vbscript. The server side is implemented in [customers bizar language requirement here]. Of course, as you are writing a state-of-the-art distributed application you use
Am I the only one considering a change of career?