Web-based Application Development with Mozilla/XUL

The use of web-based applications has increased significantly in major companies over the past five years. This is largely due to the significant advantages they offer in cost and flexibility. With the maturing of associated technologies, the benefits of web-based applications are now available to small and medium sized businesses.

Lower development and maintenance costs
No client installation: updates are rolled out instantly to all users
Easy administration: centralized data backup and no firewall configuration
Look and feel like a familiar desktop application
Can be run over a standard Internet connection
Easily integrated with other online tools such as forums or mapping software

Web-based applications are the ideal replacement for aging Access Forms or Visual Basic applications and are especially suited to modern networked environments and businesses with remote workers. If you want to discuss the possibilities of web-based applications for your business, please contact us.

Mozilla Firefox as a Development Platform

Mozilla Firefox is the popular and free web browser from the Mozilla Open Source project. Descended from Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox is primarily a lightweight, secure and highly standards compliant web browser. It can be installed on virtually any computer and is supported by a wide range of companies including Google, Yahoo, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

Mozilla's XUL user-interface language provides an efficient cross-platform environment for creating remote web applications which, when combined with XML-based web services, are extremely effective in Intranet and restricted access Internet environments to reduce both client maintenance and bandwidth consumption when compared to traditional HTML applications while improving usability.