[DLSLUG-Discuss] Notes from DLSLUG, 6-Dec-2007

[Roger]

Hello fellow DLSLUG and GNHLUG members,

My name is Roger Trussell.
When I did my presentation, I was asked about the XULExplorer.
I have some good news and bad news.
The good news is that the XULExplorer can be found here:
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/xul-explorer/

The bad news is that only the Mac and Windows installers have been perfected and I cannot run XULExplorer with wine on FC4.

If you want to some extra work yourselves: (lol...)
There seems to be enough code that someone could flesh out the source tree and convert it into a Firefox extension. (You "compile" Firefox extensions by compressing the correct directory structure with zip and renaming to something.xpi .)

Before compressing into a zip file, I would recommend generating a GUID and using that as the name that you specify in all the XUL files, the manifest files, and in the RDF installer file. 

You may use an RDF file from one of my previous examples as a starting point for your RDF file. Please remember to change the GUID!

For example:
in the current explorer.xul it says:
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://explorer/skin/explorer.css" type="text/css"?>

I would recommend changing it to:
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://<GUID>/skin/explorer.css" type="text/css"?>

There are several files that need to be changed.
You can use the RDF file from a previous example and modify it to make the extension.

-Roger




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From: Ted Roche <[e-mail addresses are not shown in archives]>
To: Greater NH Linux User Group <[e-mail addresses are not shown in archives]>; DLSLUG Discuss <[e-mail addresses are not shown in archives]>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:19:41 PM
Subject: [DLSLUG-Discuss] Notes from DLSLUG, 6-Dec-2007
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Roger Trussell presented a firefox extension using Javascript, XML
("XUL") and SVG (Structured Vector Graphics, yet again more XML, but
rendered by Mozilla as graphics) to create graphically complex
interactive structures in Mozilla browser. Nifty!

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