Neil's Place

We’ve been thinking a bit about the future of XULPlanet. developer.mozilla.org provides more documentation and is easier to update, both for me and for others, and also includes some of the documentation currently on XULPlanet. Due to the greater difficulty in keeping the XULPlanet version updated, this version of, for example, the tutorial, is a bit out of date.

To be honest, I haven’t updated XULPlanet documentation in quite some time, and probably won’t do much in the future. The only thing I’m likely to do is update the XPCOM reference once Firefox 3 arrives. Some developers prefer the XPCOM reference on XULPlanet instead of the MDC reference. However, the latter is created manually and is only partially complete. Perhaps someone with the time and inclination would offer to convert the XULPlanet Mozilla 1.8 XPCOM reference over to MDC. The scripts I used for this are also available.

XULPlanet at one time was quite useful, however, the time has come where its value no longer seems necessary. So at this stage, we have two options. Either find some way to make XULPlanet useful again, or remove it and have XULPlanet just redirect over to MDC.

Thoughts?