Firefox architecture

[Roger Irwin]

I have been browsing through the Mozzilla source and have been impressed
at the level to which javascript decends. Clearly there is a lot of
javascript that ends up embedded in the binaries and not as stand alone
ASCII scripts. Anybody know how this works?

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Firefox architecture



Roger Irwin wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have been browsing through the Mozzilla source and have been impressed
> at the level to which javascript decends. Clearly there is a lot of
> javascript that ends up embedded in the binaries and not as stand alone
> ASCII scripts. Anybody know how this works?[/color]

Well, how about checking www.mozilla.org, look at

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/

and in particular at the links about XUL and XPCOM. With Mozilla the
interface is not written as HTML scripted with JavaScript but as XUL
scripted with JavaScript.
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Martin Honnen

http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[George Jempty]

Re: Firefox architecture

Roger Irwin wrote:[color=blue]
> I have been browsing through the Mozzilla source and have been impressed
> at the level to which javascript decends. Clearly there is a lot of
> javascript that ends up embedded in the binaries and not as stand alone
> ASCII scripts. Anybody know how this works?[/color]

The zipped version of Mozilla, rather than the pre-packaged installer,
ships with a free-standing Javascript interpreter. This is the Mozilla
package for building applications. It even comes with a library for
accessing the file system.