XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI.
by Nigel McFarlane
October 21, 2002
ozilla 1.0 and Netscape 7.0, the re-write and upgrade to Netscape's 4.x Communicator suite, is more than just standards support and new code. During the re-write, the Netscape (now mozilla.org) engineers decided to emphasize XML as the foundation of (nearly) everything in the new browser code. One important result is the XML-based XUL language.
In this article I'll show you how kick XUL's tires a bit and explore how it works. I've used Mozilla here rather than Netscape 7.0, because of the availability of friendly development tools such as the DOM Inspector and the debugger. Otherwise, the two browsers are the same.
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ozilla 1.0 and Netscape 7.0, the re-write and upgrade to Netscape's 4.x Communicator suite, is more than just standards support and new code. During the re-write, the Netscape (now 
