I had read Joe Hewitt on Boxely (from AOL) when it was in the works, but found through Matt that it has gone live. I think these markup based UI development kits are better at portability as their application building technology is available on all platforms. They become portable once their rendering engine is ported on multiple operating systems. [Continue]
This post has already been published on code::gallery blog which now has been merged into this blog. Developing cross-platform C/C++ code is not difficult, but definitely challenging and has to be disciplined. Usually, a separate interface is designed so that the platform-specific code is encapsulated. [Continue]
Mozilla Platform is a sturdy and proven platform for application development. XULRunner is a command-line application that is used to run XUL applications. As mentioned in the Sunbird article, XUL is a markup language for creating user interfaces. [Continue]