[Zope] XUL 'n' ZOPE

[Fernando Martins]

Out of curiosity, AFAIK, XUL is a widget library which totally depends on
Mozilla. Using it, seems to defeat the purpose of HTML, to have pages
working in any browser. I'm I missing something?

Fernando

PS: Stephan, sorry for having sent this msg originally only to you. Blind
reply...

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 January 2003 19:20, Jim Washington wrote:
> > You may use properly-namespaced html tags inside XUL; html forms will
> > work just as in regular html.
>
> You really do not want to do that, since you are defeating the
> purpose of XUL
> this way.
>
> > Or, if you want to stay with strictly XUL, event->javascript->xml-rpc.
>
> Well, it is not quiet that straight forward, but similar. I just
> got adding
> objects working in combination with Zope 3, so as Sidnei pointed
> out, there
> should be some good starting points in Packages/Moztop.
>
> >  SOAP would presumably work similarly as xml-rpc, but that seems to be
> > an advanced topic at the moment on the Zope side.
>
> SOAP is overkill.
>
> > http://www.vcdn.org/Public/XMLRPC/ has a pretty-good javascript
> > implementation of xml-rpc to get you started.  There have been a couple
> > of posts on this list recently about it that you should look-up if you
> > plan to use it.
>
> Why would you want to use it? Mozilla has its own nsXmlRpcClient.js
> implementation based on Martijn Pieters original work! It seems broken in
> 1.2.1, but I got it to work with the nightly build. You can get
> the patched
> version from the Packages/Moztop repository. I checked it in a
> couple minutes
> ago.
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
> --
> Stephan Richter
> CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
> Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training
>
>
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