Mozilla is not just a browser. Mozilla is also a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications. Creating Applications with Mozilla provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla's framework. After installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications. After the initial satisfaction of developing your own portable applications, the book branches into topics on modular development and packaging your application. In order to build more complex applications, coverage of XUL, JavaScript, and CSS allow you to discover how to customize and build out your application shell.
- Title:
- Creating Applications with Mozilla
- By:
- David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Print Release:
- September 2002
- Pages:
- 480
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-00052-3
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-00052-9
Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Creating Applications with Mozilla is a frilled lizard. Native to Australia, the frilled lizard is known for the colorful neck frill that it uses to frighten predators. The frill normally lies in folds around the lizard's shoulders, creating a camouflage. When the lizard is frightened, it activates the frill by opening its mouth wide. This raises the frill, displaying its bright red and orange underside. Frilled lizards eat insects such as cicadas, ants, and spiders. Their population has been greatly diminished by land clearing and being preyed on by cats. Mary Brady was the production editor and proofreader, and Ann Schirmer was the copyeditor for Creating Applications with Mozilla. Mary Anne Weeks Mayo and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Johnna Van Hoose Dinse wrote the index. Brian Sawyer and Derek Di Matteo provided production support.
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David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is Lucas-Font's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Linley Dolby.