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		akamaka on April 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XUL Layout is gone Ironically, it was their own success that made the XUL stack die off. Mozilla’s work on making browsers better enabled developers to write ever more complex webapps, and we’ve never looked back.

Yoric on April 2, 2023 [–]

That was by design, actually.

A long time ago, Mozilla had a choice between making XUL an open standard or investing in HTML5 and decided very consciously to invest in HTML5, rather than fragmenting the web.

Source: I worked at Mozilla around that time.

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