“Browser engineers are cooking up a new way to create user
interfaces that could have broad ramifications for application
programming.”
“Engineers at America Online’s newly acquired Netscape
Communications unit, along with developers working under the
auspices of AOL-backed Mozilla.org, have drafted the Extensible
User Interface Language (XUL), which would let developers create a
browser’s user interface using common Web development
languages.
“If successful, the move could fuel a trend toward creating more
application components with Web languages, which have the twin
benefits of being both cross-platform and easier to use than
traditional application programming languages.”