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The time is right for a DOM templating API

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218 points mdhb | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.232s | source
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mosdl ◴[26 Jun 25 22:15 UTC] No.44392019[source]▶
I miss mozilla's XUL language (and XBL!), those were awesome.
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sabellito ◴[26 Jun 25 23:11 UTC] No.44392354[source]▶
My company, me as a solo dev, back in 2003-04 built a "single page app" using XUL and iframes. Still has some 200 monthly users, the poor bastards. They have to download Firefox 3.6 iirc, and it only works in an 800x600 window.

XUL was beastly back then though.

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Nextgrid ◴[27 Jun 25 00:03 UTC] No.44392651[source]▶
> Still has some 200 monthly users, the poor bastards. They have to download Firefox 3.6 iirc, and it only works in an 800x600 window.

Out of curiosity, what does that app do to convince people to jump through such hoops? Would you mind sending a link to it?

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1. mosdl ◴[27 Jun 25 03:13 UTC] No.44393402[source]▶
Quite common, lots of old software that is custom written lives on, be it java apps, old vb stuff, etc