Sebastopol, CA — (press release excerpt) — More than just a browser, Mozilla provides a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications by utilizing its accessible components, including JavaScript, CSS, and Mozilla's XUL (XML-based user-interface Language), as well as the Gecko rendering engine, XBL (eXtensible Binding Language), and XPCOM (Mozilla's component model).

O'Reilly's latest release, Creating Applications with Mozilla (David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, and Eric Murphy, US $39.95), shows how innovative applications — such as a text editor, chat client, or MP3 player — can be created using a combination of easy-to-understand technologies.

Creating Applications with Mozilla introduces and explores Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework, providing step-by-step instructions for creating applications. The first several chapters serve as an introduction to the Mozilla development environment and impart the knowledge necessary to quickly learn to create simple programs. The authors then branch into topics on modular development and other advanced subjects. The book provides the information to help readers . . .

• Understand how the basic Mozilla development framework technologies work together
• Learn to use the elements and features of XUL to build applications
• Add functionality to an application with JavaScript
• Create the look and feel of an application using CSS
• Package and install an application for distribution
• Extend the basic Mozilla framework with XBL, XPCOM, XUL templates, and RDF
• Make applications accessible by localizing them into different languages
• Develop remote applications to be served via the Web or another server

 
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