9.11. Summary
Mozilla provides a command specification and delivery system. This system encourages functional analysis of applications. Such functional analysis allows the application programmer to separate application tasks from the visual appearance of the application. That separation encourages a clean design. It protects implemented commands from most changes in the fragile and fashion-conscious GUI of the application. The command system can automatically sort out where a command is implemented, perform that command, and pass on advice about command changes.
The command system is an example of Mozilla-specific functionality that is entirely nonvisual. It is also separate to the W3C standards–based DOM Event system. The mechanics of the command ...
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