[GTALUG] Mozilla XUL is dead

[William Park]

So, what does it mean for newbies?  Jump to WebExtensions?
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:23:15AM -0400, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/
> 
> Pretty interesting article on how Firefox has been evolving over the last
> 15-ish years.
> 
> I remember when Wrox Press asked me if I knew of anyone that knew about
> XUL, because their "hype wagon" thought that XUL was the next big thing,
> and they wanted a book on that.  And it was, though after a fashion much
> smaller than I expect Wrox was imagining.
> 
> XUL and XPCOM (which is kinda like COM, which was Microsoft's fork of DCE's
> DCOM, which was an extendible API system kinda like CORBA...) are now being
> actively deprecated.  A pain in the neck to anyone that had devoted a lot
> of resources to XUL, but probably not something others care about terribly
> much.
> 
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