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Introduction

  • What is a Mozilla Application?
  • Why mozilla?
    • Rapid development
    • Truely cross platforms (Unix, Win32, Mac, OS/2, BeOS)
    • Standards based (XML, DOM, RDF)
  • The challenge: write a mail client. What tools are available?
    • XPCOM
    • XUL
    • JS and XPConnect
    • RDF
    • etc..
Alec Flett
Last modified: Fri Jul 7 00:41:48 PDT 2000
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