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===== Introduction and Technology =====

=== Introduction ===

We wanted the Evergreen staff client for PINES to be built on a platform that was powerful, cross-platform, standards compliant, and suited for RAD.  To this end, we settled on the [[http://www.mozilla.org/|Mozilla]] framework.  Some applications that use this platform include:  [[http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/|Firefox]], [[http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/|Thunderbird]], and [[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/|Sunbird]].  We test the staff client on Firefox, [[http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/|Mozilla]], and [[http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner|XUL Runner]].  Starting with our Alpha release, we have been bundling the staff client with XUL Runner as a single executable installation file.

=== Buzzwords ===

Application development with Mozilla makes use of XUL, CSS, RDF, [[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/|XPCOM]], and Javascript.  The capsule summary is that it allows for a very layered approach where presentation, content, and behavior can be highly separated.

Some resources for development with the mozilla platform: 
[[http://xulplanet.com|XULPlanet]] [[http://mozdev.org/]] [[http://www.mozilla.org/developer/]]