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By glazou on Monday 1 June 2009, 09:45 - Mozilla - Permalink
- jQuery and XUL...<rant>I have this SQLite-based template in my XUL page. The result contains eleven items (in other terms peanuts, zilch, nada...) and the rendering is almost instantaneous, I mean it is instantaneous from a user's perspective. If the page loads jquery.min.js (1.26 because it totally fails with XUL starting with 1.30), the template takes 6 SECONDS to show. Ok, got the message, I'm dropping jQuery in XUL... Seen from my personal corner, I find it a true pity that hyper-famous John Resig's personal project is not compatible with hyper-famous John Resig's employer's technologies. XUL needs something like jQuery for modern and robust UI effects. Because we already had this discussion together,I know we're a few here thinking that fadeIn()/fadeOut() is more interesting to XUL/JavaScript and the Mozilla ecosystem than some of the latest JS improvements...</rant>
- CSS WG... I'll be on the French Riviera for the rest of the week for the CSS Working Group face-to-face meeting.
- my new twitter client... I rewrote the SQLite-based templates yesterday and improved a lot, really a lot, the quality and speed of conversations. Given the fact I'm away for the CSS WG this week, the first beta won't happen this week but the app is clearly already very clean and I'm using it now as my regular twitter client. Stay tuned!
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XUL is dying. When you look at Jetpack and the Moco announcements, than you can see that Moco wants to get rid of XUL asap.
I personally would regret this but that's not my decision.
Moco? ( http://www.google.com/search?defl=e... )
You wouldn't happen to have some sort of link to these 'Moco' announcements, would you?
What should be used instead of XUL? HTML?
MoCo=mozilla.com
HTML5 instead of XUL. You'll find all relevant tags there.
I *really* like SQLite, even if I start to have doubts about disk I/O impact under Linux (see Firefox freezes during heavy disk operations).
Remarkable dbms, light, very fast and portable. Love it.
I remember once trying to visit a page on www.mozdev.org which used a version of jQuery for autocomplete and the browser froze for minutes
Daniel, did you report that bug? It should be trivial to at least figure out what's taking all the time and then decide whether that needs a Gecko fix or a jquery fix....
Oh, and I can't build and browse icanhascheezburger.com at the same time because of the myriad of slow script warnings from jquery
Si tu veux je veux bien beta tester !