Why not use simple HTML and javascript instead of XUL?

Question

Why not use simple HTML and javascript instead of XUL?

juzerali opened this issue 12 years ago · 3 comments

That way it can be ported to other browsers as well including Chrome, Opera, Safari etc.

Answer 1 · 2012-11-27T05:51:03.000Z

@juzerali The Add-on structure across browsers are not common, we need to develop them as a each stand alone Add-on, But right now we are into developing Firefox add-on with most part of HTML with Twitter Bootstrap into it rather than XUL

Answer 2 · 2012-11-27T17:59:45.000Z

Thats great. Isn't the html one hosted on github? Can I have a look at and possibly contribute to that?

Answer 3 · 2012-11-28T01:53:28.000Z

Thanks, ya it ll be under new branch hfx-1.8 once initial commit was done , i ll notify you @juzerali