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I was just goofing around, trying to see what spiffy new UI patterns we could make using XUL. I thought I’d try creating an Office 2007 ribbon style toolbar. My current result is shown here:

Microsoft announced Silverlight 1.1 Alpha at MIX07 today. It’s a perfect example of what Microsoft is capable of doing with its formidable set of resources. Justin Van Patten has a post outlining the new features. Its quite a list:

FUEL 0.1 landed on the trunk yesterday. Progress had slowed since the last update mainly due to John and I having so many other balls in the air. For those intrepid enough to play with 0.1, you can use the API on the wiki and the code in the unit tests as examples.

I came across an interesting application of XUL and the new Yahoo email web services via Ryan Kennedy. The application is called Tapestry and its a neat little XUL-based email client. From Ryan’s post:

The Boston Developer Day was a great time. The group was a bit different than the Mountain View Developer Day. There were many individual attendees, whereas Mountain View had more group attendees. Overall, the attendees were more vocal in Boston too. We also tweaked the schedule to make the lightning talks shorter and more focused - Just say your high points, show your demo and get out. We were able to get to the breakout sessions faster.

Just thought I’d point out some new content appearing on the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC).

One of the Mountain View developer day sessions covered the current state of developing applications with XULRunner. I was hoping that the high density of application developers (Songbird and Flock) and extension developers in the room would help me get a better idea of the pain points involved and a general idea of how to make the situation better. Here is a summary of the session: