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Like I said,
XUL is our XML User Interface language. ItÕs a powerful language that lets
you quickly develop client software.
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XUL is used by
MozillaÕs premier products, including Firefox and Thunderbird, and is used
by a number of MozillaÕs projects, including Chatzilla, NVU, and so on.
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XUL was
originally developed because there was a desire in Netscape to have single
front end teams for each of their products, rather than having split
Windows, Mac and Linux teams, each of which produced slightly different
products with different features. Because development of the platform was
occurring at the same time as development of the applications, at first this
approach wasnÕt any quicker than the previous one, but by the time Firefox
was in development the relatively stable platform made it much easier to
develop features for multiple platforms quickly. The new download manager
window took just a weekend to put together, for example.
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