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Mozilla Mail and JavaScript

  • Entire mail client is XPConnected: over 140 XPCOM compliant interfaces accessable from JavaScript (and C++!)
  • The DOM: JavaScript makes it easy to manipulate the UI
    • Hiding/enabling/disabling widgets
    • opening windows
    • behavior of individual widgets
    • Example: "Smart identity" for mail composition
  • Event handling
  • Component-level testing/development with xpcshell
Alec Flett
Last modified: Thu Jul 6 23:31:41 PDT 2000
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