Comments on: XUL Explorer 0.2

By: Rob Chartier ~ Contemplation... : A few XUL resources...

Rob Chartier ~ Contemplation... : A few XUL resources... — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:42:12 +0000

By: Mark Finkle’s Weblog » XUL/E - What If

Mark Finkle’s Weblog » XUL/E - What If — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:25:50 +0000

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By: Richard Klein

Richard Klein — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:53:01 +0000

another suggestion is to move the help viewing to an external browser. You could do something like:

var url = this.app.getHelpURI(cmd);
var ioService = Components.classes[”@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1″].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIIOService);
var protocolSvc = Components.classes[”@mozilla.org/uriloader/external-protocol-service;1″].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIExternalProtocolService);
var uri = ioService.newURI(url, null, null);
protocolSvc.loadUrl(uri);

By: Richard Klein

Richard Klein — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:06:46 +0000

I like Laurentj ideas on improvements. I’ll also add my thoughts on improvements as well.

- when inserting a snippet put the focus inside the editor.
- when the error console is cleared remove the indicator in the statusbar.
- get the view source window working.

By: The Klein's

The Klein's — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:00:23 +0000

XUL Explorer 0.2…

Mark Finkle has a new version of his XUL Explorer application. This version has some big improvements over his last version, and he has given me credit for the live preview feature. This is well worth checking out if you are an XUL hacker….

By: hyperstruct

hyperstruct — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:38:02 +0000

It would be nice if certain features (e.g. “best practices checker”) were nicely factored out so that they could be easily re-used in other settings. Something like (simplifying):

function xulCheck(doc, errorReporter, warningReporter) { … }

xulCheck(
document,
function(node, msg) { dump(’Error on : ‘ + msg + ‘\n’); },
function(node, msg) { dump(’Warning on : ‘ + msg + ‘\n’); });

By: Laurentj

Laurentj — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:04:19 +0000

oh, some ideas for the futur :

- drag and drop from snippets to the editor
- for some snippets, when we insert it, a dialog appears to edit some parameters, to fill easely some attributes etc..
- the possibility to create/edit snippets directly into xul explorer

By: Laurentj

Laurentj — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:56:35 +0000

This enhancements are cool

Just a comment : your XUL checker should consider any tags in fact, not only those which are “official”. What about user tags on which an XBL binding is attached ? And what about user attributes on “official” tags ?

So error message generated by your XUL checker shouldn’t be “illegal element” but “unknow element” or “unknow attribute”. In XUL, any tag is allowed

By: Eric Shepherd

Eric Shepherd — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:34:36 +0000

This is a great tool for XUL developers. I’m pretty excited.