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Title: Essential XUL Programming by Vaughn Bullard, Kevin T. Smith, Michael C. Daconta ISBN: 0-471-41580-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: May-be wait for 2nd edition?
Comment: I bought this because of the JXUL project. To that end I found this book very handy to understand that basics, intermediate aspects and application of XUL, RDF, XBL, etc.
A lot of time is spent talking about Mozilla (obviously). The problem is that a lot of that content will be quickly out of date. Discussion of other projects like Luxor (like JXUL), Xavier (server side) and the enhancements made in Mozilla since being published would make a welcome second edition. May-be wait for Mozilla 1.0.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book!
Comment: In my line of work with SGML, the transition into XML comes pretty natural and with that the notion of "Hey, there is really a lot of cool stuff one can achieve with this!". Especially when you add XUL, XBL, RDF, and JavaScript/DOM to this.
Thats where this book comes in really handy. The chapters are laid out pretty well and don't require a lot of experience with XML, although some basic knowledge of how a markup language work helps. The only downside about the whole XUL at the moment (in my view) is that its currently only supported in Netscape 6.x. The XUL support in Mozilla got broken somewhere between milestone release 0.92 and 0.94. However, the jXUL project looks really promising and would certainly make up for the lack of browser support since this will run as stand-alone applications in a "Runner" application.
As others have mentioned, the chapter on RDF was pretty scary and daunting and should be revisited by the reader a couple of times. There are of course lots of RDF resources on the web that could provide more help and insight.
The chapter on Netscape Themes (including the appendix containing all the different images and buttons used) could probably be left out in the next edition, to give more room for RDF or DOM?
Grand total; A very good book on this topic that certainly will inspire the reader for further research in this area.
Rating: 3
Summary: Quickly out of date - wait for 2nd edition?
Comment: I bought this because because of the JXUL project. To the end I found this book very handy to understand that basics of XUL programming and quickly got me up to speed.
A lot of time is spent talking about Mozilla (obviously). The problem is that a lot of that content will be quickly out of date. Discussion of other projects like Luxor, Xavier and the enhancements made in Mozilla since being published would make a welcome second edition. May-be wait for Mozilla 1.0.
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Title: Rapid Application Development with Mozilla by Nigel McFarlane ISBN: 0131423436 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 07 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Creating Applications with Mozilla by David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy ISBN: 0596000529 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Netscape® Mozilla¿ Source Code Guide by William R. Stanek ISBN: 0764545884 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 09 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan ISBN: 0596000480 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: XForms Essentials by Micah Dubinko ISBN: 0596003692 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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