johnnywang has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

(This is probably more an open-ended question than a meditation.) I'm bitten by the Firefox bug recently, spent sometime looking into such things as XUL, and the Gecko engine. There haven't been much discussion here in the monastery. Are there anything there that's relevent for the perl community? Somewhere I read there is work to integrate java/python into Gecko, what does that mean? and how about perl?

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Re: Bitten by the Firefox bug
by kvale (Monsignor) on Dec 01, 2004 at 04:41 UTC
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Re: Bitten by the Firefox bug
by gaal (Parson) on Dec 01, 2004 at 04:50 UTC
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      Does anyone know of a live demo site using XUL::Node ?
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        I don't know about a public site, but you can try it locally by running xul-node-server (see the docs).
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      server v's client
      You may want to take a peak at these comments xul/perl (use.perl.org) for server side (ie: xul-node) or kungfuftrs posts who talks about how to use perl/xul, client side via XPCOM.

      what I liked about the discussion on XML-Node was how anything you can do in JS you can do in Perl + XML-Node.

      reading mork: perl use for firefox
      ...but there is not much going on in the above modules. if you want you can read about jwz and mork.pl and how perl saved the day reading the mozilla history.dat file.

      update:
      yeah sorry for the confusion. rightly or wrongly its pretty much the way I reply as I never get a top level reply option so I comment on the child node.

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        I've read about mork. I even know the person who helped him reverse engineer this insane format. And this has absolutely nothing to do with XUL. :)

        Update: ah, you wanted to make a top-level comment and accidentally replied to something I said. Was it as confusing for you as it was for me? :)

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