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created: 2003-08-03

MoZTop

MoZTop Development

**Note: The MozTop? project has retired in favor of the Twingle development at twingle.mozdev.org.**

This page is intended for MoZTop-related proposals and discussions.

  • What is MoZTop?

    MoZTop is the Mozilla XUL version of the new Zope 3 Management Interface. As Mozilla reached 1.0.0, a milestone at which all the APIs? are going to be locked, it makes much sense to build an user interface against this fine platform, especially XUL.

  • What are the advantages of a XUL-based GUI?
    • Part of the client will be installed locally, therefore decreasing the startup time of the UI.
    • Once a XUL component is loaded, it does not need to be loaded again for this session, since XUL does not need to reload/request the page again to submit information.
    • SOAP is used to store data, which means your network activity footprint is much smaller.
    • RDF is used for data retrieval, which means good compatibility for other data retrieval mechanisms and data sinks
    • XUL has many advanced widgets for editing text and supports Drag'n'Drop, both tools we can profit from, or have you never been sick of the textarea?
    • We can profit from a lot of existing infrastructure.
  • Communication:

    #zope3-xul is the currently best place for getting together on this still very ... vaguely formed project

  • Current tasks:
    • Write an installer (srichter/ev)
    • Make the explorer do something (ctheune)
    • Have the objects views displayed in the main content (ctheune)
  • Documentation
    • xulplanet.com (note the element references, xpcom references, etc.) The "findfiles" main tutorial is what you want.
    • books.mozdev.org is the O'Reilly book.



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