Chapter 15. XBL Bindings
This chapter explains how to enhance the XUL language with new tags and new behavior using XBL (XML Binding Language).
XBL is an XML-based language that allows new, fully featured tags to be added to XUL, HTML, and XML. It is an efficient system for creating new GUI widgets. It is specific to Mozilla.
Plain XUL allows programmers to create user-defined tags like <mytag>, but such tags aren't very useful. They can be styled but are merely simple boxlike tags. XBL, by comparison, allows for the creation of whole widgets with distinctive appearance and behavior. The content of an XBL widget is made ...
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