Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
>> i only tried XUL and XPCOM once(nearly 4 years ago)... and i lost >> interest in it after >> a month or so since it meant convincing alot of ppl to use mozilla(or a >> XUL-app launcher) >> to launch my applications...
> Well, I would consider that a good thing, convincing people to use > Mozilla, especially now, since IE has a raft of major security bugs that > Microsoft is in no hurry to fix. If you did this today, then perhaps > you would find a much more receptive audience given the raft of > IE-enabled malware that we have today.
Actually Microsoft does issue IE patches more or less regularly. And to be fair, I've noticed that people who leave their auto update running in the background are now far less susceptible to viruses, trojans and other malware than before.
The whole notion of auto-updating reeks though. I can imagine the next form of attack to come in the form of malicious updates, i.e. find a way to trick Windows into getting its updates from a different source. This is potentially a nightmare scenario.
Anyway, to go back to the topic of XUL, since it's now a very freindly package to install and Firefox has been steadily gaining cachet, I imagine you would face a lot less resistance to people installing it on their machines nowadays.
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