El propòsit de XULRunner és el de proveir una solució per el desplegament d'aplicacions XUL ( principalment Firefox i Thunderbird ), també proveint un mecanisme d'incrustracio. Les següents característiques ja estan implementades o bé estan planejades :
Característiques de Gecko
- XPCOM
- Xarxa
- Motor de renderització Gecko
- Suport d'edició i transacció DOM (sense Interfície)
- Criptografia
- XBL (XBL2 planificat)
- XUL
- SVG
- XSLT
- Extres XML (
XMLHttpRequest,DOMParser, etc.) - Serveis Web (SOAP)
- Suport per Auto-actualització (encara no finalitzat)
- Type ahead find toolbar
- History implementation (the places implementation in the 1.9 cycle)
- Accessibility support
- IPC services for communication between gecko-based apps (not yet complete)
- Storage/sqlite interfaces (not yet turned on by default)
User Interface Features
The following user interface is supplied by XULRunner, and may be overridden by embedders under certain circumstances:
- APIs and user interface for installing, uninstalling, and upgrading XUL applications. See the wikimo:XUL:Installation Story.
- Extension Manager
- File picker (uses native OS filepicker as appropriate)
- Find toolbar
- Helper app dialog/UI
- Security UI (maintenance of SSL keychains, etc)
Embedding APIs
The following embedding APIs are provided by XULRunner:
- Cross-platform embedding (XRE_InitEmbedding)
- JavaXPCOM embedding
- gtkmozembed (Linux only)
- ActiveX control (Windows only) (not yet complete)
- NSView-based-widget (Mac OS X only) (not yet complete)
The "Maybe" List
The following features have been discussed and may be included if developer time permits and code size is controlled:
- LDAP support
- Spellchecking support (with or without dictionaries provided) see bug 285977
- Core support for profile roaming (with application-specific extensibility)
- PyXPCOM embedding (not yet complete) - but it does work, if you compile a custom build that includes the PyXPCOM bindings and there is a working python available. ActiveState uses PyXPCOM in their products.
What's out
XULRunner will not supply:
- Bookmarks or History UI (must be managed by the application/embedder)
- XForms (XForms will be available as an extension)
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