Writing a Mozilla Application with XUL and Javascript
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  • XPCOM is an acronym for Cross Platform Component Object Model.
  • XPCOM is a reference counted COM implementation.
  • XPCOM is not binary compatible with Microsoft's COM (aka ActiveX.)
  • XPConnect is the layer responsible for providing access to XPCOM from JavaScript.

[ Presentation Overview | Agenda | XUL Documents | Summary of XUL Elements | XUL Document Example | XUL Document Screenshot | XUL Overlays | XUL Overlay Example | XUL Overlay Screenshot | RDF Data | RDF Graph Illustration | RDF and XUL Templates | XUL Template Example | XUL Template Example, Points of Interest | Conclusions | Extra Slides | RDF Data Sources | XPCOM and XPConnect | XPConnect Objects | Instantiating an XPCOM Component | Chrome structure | Installing Chrome | Sample manifest.rdf ]