XPToolkit Project

Vision: We make cross-platform user interfaces as easy to build and customize as web pages.

Elevator Story: straight up or touchy-feely.

Who are we, and what are we doing here?

How do I get plugged in?
We want all our discussions to be open to the net, and captured for the benefit of those who join later. We need your help.  Please discuss anything/everything about this project on the XPFE newsgroup.  If we're not keeping you in the loop, YELL at our manager. It's probably his fault anyway!

Where do I start?
New documentation is coming online! Click here to browse the new online documentation. A "Getting Started" orientation guide is also available, with pointers to resources of interest. The old documents will be listed below until the new documentation has been completed.

A Guide to the XPToolkit Architecture
 
 

• Introduction
• Overview of Packages
• XUL/AOM Reference
  • XUL Programmer's Reference
  • Introduction to a XUL Document
  • Writing Skinnable XUL and CSS (a must read)
  • XBL - The Extensible Binding Language
  • Widgets
    • Menu Bars and Menus
    • Toolbars and Toolboxes
    • Titled Buttons
    • Tree Widget
    • Tab Widget
    • Sliders and Scrollbars
    • The Splitter Widget
    • Progress Meter
    • Checkbox (Tri-state)
  • The Box System
  • Broadcasters and Observers
  • Focus and Command Dispatching
  • Key Binding
  • Popup Content (Context Menus and Tooltips)
  • XUL Overlays
  • Persistence and Sharing
  • Windows and Dialogs
• Packages and the Chrome Registry
• XUL and RDF
  • The AOM Implementation
  • XUL/RDF Templates
• Services Reference
  • Intro to Clipboard/Drag & Drop
  • The Clipboard
  • Drag and Drop
  • File Dialogs
  • Color Picker
  • Font Picker

Project Documents:

Executive Overview:	Handout from a recent meeting with our executive sponsor at Netscape (and he bought it!).
Project Goals:	Just a few high-level goals.
Schedule:	Includes dates for specific tasks and milestones. If you think you can infer ship dates from this, please tell us, 'cuz we'd really like to know.

Requirements:

Dialogs	Special features of Windows useful for treating them as dialogs.
Image Button/Menu Button	Buttons that execute commands or show menus/trees when clicked on.
Menus	What we are providing in our menu service.
Progress Bar	Meter or barber pole: no more cylon.
Tab Widget	Tab widget requirements
Toolbars	Toolbar requirements, spec, and examples
Necessary Widgets	A rather complete list of widgets, with screens shots that identify them, but aren't the UE-approved appearance.
XP Widget Set	User Experience spec for Netscape's GFX widgets.
<your widget/service>	Please explore requirements before designing.

Older Engineering Documents (Close to being OBSOLETE)

Configurable Chrome Spec	All about configurable chrome
XUL Style Guide	Guidelines for writing XUL, with specifics for i18n.

And now for something Completely Different...

Last updated: 10/1/99 by Peter Trudelle, who really wants your feedback.