At 16:33 15/10/99 , Johan Carlsson wrote:
We are also keeping an eye on developments in the Mozilla community, and the things they are working on look like they could be very promising as a foundation for eventually providing a much more usable and robust interface to Zope without losing the benefits of the through-the-web model. Such a thing would fit better with our standards-based approach than a totally non-std java interface, and using XUL and some of the other Moz technologies would allow Zope to provide a rich interface and still remain easily customizable.
And don't forget the ZIE-project using Microsoft's proprietary API to enhance the UI ;-) As I understand it, XUL is proprietary Moz-tech, right?
With a web browser installation rate at approximately 70-30 it's impossible to ignore Microsoft, where one likes it or not.
When Mozilla 5.0 is released, I can see that balance reshift the other way round in no time. IE5.0 against Netscape 4.x is M$'s win, certainly for a web site developer, but Moz 5 is an Open Source development. XUL can and will be implemented by others, because of that. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------