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Entry text: [quote="MarkC"]I've been a "XUL dark matter" developer using Mozilla the platform for several years now - currently I'm earning a living as such. The platform is flexible, powerful and generally easy for an existing HTML developer to pick up (at least the basics). But there is one thing that is holding it back as a more versatile and widespread platform: Mozilla themselves. A few years ago there was much talk about the platform, verging almost on encouragement for other companies to build things with it. These days it seems that Mozilla only really cares about the platform to the extent that it supports what they want to do with Firefox. Obvious usability bugs go unaddressed, and new features and widgets arrive only sporadically - and usually only when they're needed for the latest Firefox fanciness. I'd love to see more support for the platform as a whole. Ultimately it could bring more (and more disparate) developers to the table, which would help to make it a more robust and more versatile system for software development. Platform development _should_ be a case of "a rising tide raises all boats". Instead it's more of a case of the good ship Firefox steaming ahead while the rest of us get tossed around in its wake.[/quote]
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