We have now completed a number of exercises that demonstrate two of the most common implementations of a XUL application. These examples included:
Although we can use any of these forms of implementation for our application, we will continue to focus on the client/server form. The use of the server to provide only textual information lends itself well to our design, in which the Firefox framework accepts the lion’s share of interface rendering, and leaves the server to focus on protocol, security, and content.
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