Popping up XUL content from Perl would indeed be cool, if the project were far enough along to be available via PPM (in ActiveState Perl) and CPAN (other platforms), and if installing that package (either the PPM or the CPAN package) would be adequate without separately installing other stuff. (Not that Mozilla isn't needed on every computer anyway, but that's a separate issue.) It's a very cool idea, certainly...

But developing on it would mean working in heinous languages like C++, and I have no interest in doing that. A wrapper around existing modules, however, like I was talking about, could be done all in Perl, and while it would be a huge stretch for me (I have not yet written a module of any complexity in Perl...) and I couldn't do it alone and would probably end up with no more than a proof of concept before handing it off, it nevertheless interests me to some extent.

for(unpack("C*",'GGGG?GGGG?O__\?WccW?{GCw?Wcc{?Wcc~?Wcc{?~cc'
.'W?')){$j=$_-63;++$a;for$p(0..7){$h[$p][$a]=$j%2;$j/=2}}for$
p(0..7){for$a(1..45){$_=($h[$p-1][$a])?'#':' ';print}print$/}
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