XBL – a dubious abbreviation for eXtensible Binding Language – is perhaps the most important part of the XUL platform that we use, other than XUL itself. XBL is a mechanism for encapsulating a XUL UI and javascript code into …
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In short, overlays are a mechanism by which one XUL file can be inserted into another XUL file, in a controlled manner. That last bit is the key: “in a controlled manner”. There are lots of ways to insert one …
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Back to this diagram: I’ve spent a couple of posts discussing the complexities of the DTD files. Thankfully the rest of the diagram is fairly easy to explain. A user requests a XUL file from the server – initially this …
Read moreGot a band? Had some hits? Then bloody well play them!
I went to see The Cure on Thursday at the 02 Arena in London (one of my least favourite venues, but that’s another story). It was a sold-out gig, with the stage at one end, which according to that Wikipedia …
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