Article:		XUL-Enhanced Web Apps
Subject:		Excellent article
Date:		2007-02-09 10:41:31
From:		Benjamin Young
It's good to hear that it's possible to get some use out of XUL. It has so much potential, but gets so little use or press. One side note: I tried the tree example on your hXUL page, and I was able to drag and drop items within the tree. Is that page implemented differently? Also, do you think it would be possible to implement a XUL rendering engine in JavaScript? That would allow XUL to be completely cross-browser (probably with some limitations) and all developers to code in XUL natively rather than rewriting HTML. Just wondering. Thanks again for the great article.

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• Excellent article
  2007-02-09 11:09:36 cedric_savarese [Reply]
  
  Hi Benjamin,

  
  The code on the hXUL page (linked at the end of the article) has a bit more features, including the drag&drop, but it's not really finalized yet so I left it out of the article.

  
  Regarding your question about a cross-browser XUL engine. I think it would be overkill to do it in javascript (and very slow), but check out XUL Explorer: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/12/xul-explorer-02/