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The Mail Reader: A Mozilla Application

  • XUL: Presentation of a user interface.
  • JavaScript: Used to manipulate the user interface
  • C++: XPCOM Components (DLLs) do the "hard work"
  • RDF: To reflect structured data back to the user (Model-View-Controller)
Useful Core Components:
  • Pref: persistent storage of user's preferences/settings
  • Necko: to facilitate simultaneous, asynchronous network connections
  • Mork: a lightweight database
  • libmime: displaying a plaintext or HTML mail message
Alec Flett
Last modified: Fri Jul 7 00:49:02 PDT 2000
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