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Firefox as a Web Services Platform
Yesterday as I was listening to several conversations, I had the feeling that I ought to drop Safari and move to Firefox as my browser. I love Safari because its slick and fast, but Firefox is becoming a platform. Because of its open architecture, there are thousands of people building things for it. That’s a powerful force that Safari will never match unless they also open their platform.
Mike Shaver was supposed to speak on Firefox, but he couldn’t make it. I didn’t catch the name of the guy who filled in for him. He talked about the open standards that Firefox is built upon (like RDF and XUL) and showed some of the cool things people are doing. That cemented it. I’m switching.
Posted by windley on March 15, 2005 10:49 AM
Comment from Jacob Rask at March 15, 2005 12:44 PM
The Mozilla Amazon Browser at http://www.faser.net/mab/ is a really neat example of what can be done with XUL. I love it.
Comment from Lee Phillips at March 17, 2005 8:38 AM
I had to try it out too, for the same reasons, but I deleted it. Firefox is not a real OS X application: you can't use Services, spell checking or Cocoa text entry in forms, etc. By now I expect applications for OS X to integrate with the system; that's what makes OS X such a pleasure to use.