Creating Applications with Mozilla
David J. Boswell, Brian E. M. King, E. J. Murphy, Ian Oescheger, Pete Collins · 2002
From the Publisher: Mozilla is not just a browser. Mozilla provides a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications by utilizing its accessible components, including JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and Mozilla's XUL (XML-based User-interface Language), as well as the Gecko rendering engine, XBL (eXtensible Binding Language), and XPCOM (Mozilla's component model). Imagine the innovative applications you can create, such as a text editor, chat client, or MP3 player, by using a combination of easy-to-understand technologies. Creating Applications with Mozilla provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework. After you understand the basic workings of the Mozilla building blocks, you'll create a simple Hello World application and progress to the point of adding more advanced features and functionality to your programs. Working through the book, the first several chapters serve as an introduction to the Mozilla development environment and impart the knowledge necessary to quickly learn to create simple programs. After obtaining the initial satisfaction of developing your own applications, you'll be ready to branch into topics on modular development and other advanced subjects. In order for you to be able to build more complex applications, the second half of the book explores UI enhancements, localization, datasources, and remote distribution.