[WEB4LIB] Re: Netscape / Mozilla SideBar removal

[Blake Carver]

Yep, XUL is the way Mozilla is built / hacked. I assume Netscape doesn't 
make the code available for hacking.
It's pronounced ZOOL I just learned, and seems to be very easily hacked.
Check out:
http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/xulfile.html

They do a great job explaining stuff.



At 02:46 PM 8/15/01 -0700, Michael Sauers wrote:
> > I'm afraid that when it comes to Mozilla/Netscape, the task of securing
> > the browser is going to get worse before it gets better.
>
>I haven't bee following Mozilla for a while so correct me if I'm no longer
>correct but...
>
>In earlier versions of Mozilla all of the menus and other controls were
>controlled by .xul files (XML) which could very easily be edited. By
>commenting out a line of code or adding a disabled attribute to a feature
>you could easily secure the browser.
>
>This feature does not seem to hold true in NS6.x (I just looked.) Are the
>.xul files still used in Mozilla?
>
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Blake Carver
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