I thought it was impossible to run a program outside my XUL app, mainly because of some kind of JavaScript restriction. There are client-side restrictions…
Joshua DoodnauthDecember 4, 2008
Writing files in XUL isn't that much harder than reading a file, in fact its very similar. What a relief. In my example I am…
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 26, 2008
While it may not be very interesting to the average Internet user, Lunascape may intrigue many web developers. Basically its a Web Browser capable of changing…
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 25, 2008
After some weeks of procrastination and going nuts over other projects, I’m getting back to XUL and my XRap program. I’ve been asked to change…
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 25, 2008
In just under 4 year Mozilla has managed to hit the one billion mark for downloads from addons.mozilla.org. It just shows how influential as well as…
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 21, 2008
I've been working hard at cleaning up my code, getting the directories to work in XML, and cleaning up my code generator so that WiX…
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 24, 2008
One of the challenges of automatically preparing a wxs (which is in xml) file for WiX to process into an msi file for installation, was…
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 23, 2008
I have updated my link to my 0.1 release of the XULRunner Application Packager (XRap), it can be downloaded here. Its still buggy, I am…
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 20, 2008
Problem: WiX uses an XML file for instructions on what directories to add to the msi package. I had no problem in recursively going through…
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 17, 2008