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Creating Applications with Mozilla
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Creating Applications with Mozilla

by David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 38m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Table of Contents

Copyright

Preface

1. Mozilla Background

2. The State of Mozilla

3. Who Should Read This Book

4. Platform and Applications

5. Structure of the Book

6. How This Book Was Written

7. Mozilla Licensing Information

8. Conventions

9. Comments and Questions

10. Acknowledgments

1. Mozilla as Platform

1.1. Visualizing Mozilla's Front End

1.1.1. XPFE Framework

1.1.2. Comparing XPFE and DHTML

1.1.3. Components of a Mozilla Application

1.2. Setting Up Your System

1.3. Mozilla Applications

1.3.1. Applications as Web Pages

2. Getting Started

2.1. Simple XUL Example

2.2. Basic XUL Concepts

2.2.1. The XUL File Format

2.2.2. Conventions

2.2.3. The XUL Namespace

2.2.4. Basic XUL Layout

2.2.5. Using XUL Windows

2.3. Making Mozilla Work for You

2.3.1. Importing Resources from Mozilla

2.4. Displaying XUL Files as Chrome

2.5. Creating a Package

2.5.1. Architecture of a Chrome Package

2.5.2. Package Components

2.5.3. Directory Structure

2.5.4. Package Manifests

2.5.5. Separating the Files

2.5.6. Registering a Package

2.6. Launching the Application

2.6.1. Windows launch

3. XUL Elements and Features

3.1. The XUL Document Object

3.1.1. XUL Parsing and the Document Object Model

3.2. Application Windows

3.2.1. Dialogs

3.2.2. Pages

3.2.3. Wizards

3.3. Application Widgets

3.3.1. The Toolbox

3.3.2. Selection Lists

3.4. Tabular and Hierarchical Information

3.4.1. List Boxes

3.4.2. High Performance Trees

3.4.3. Grid

3.5. Words and Pictures

3.5.1. Text Input

3.5.2. Text Display

3.5.3. Images ...

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