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Mozilla Mail and RDF

Reflection of proprietary mail data into UI using RDF templates.

What?!
  • Mail has datasources that can answer RDF queries about mail objects
  • <template> tags in XUL declare dynamic content
  • RDF templates query datasources
  • Query results generate XUL, which is rendered to the screen
  • Examples: Folder pane, Thread pane, Move/Copy Menus
Alec Flett
Last modified: Fri Jul 7 00:21:45 PDT 2000
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