mozilla/xpcom/javascript
So we’ve reached a small milestone this week.. I’ll start from the beginning. Mozilla, which we’re using as the client side software platform, has a built in framework called XPCOM which allows developers to add software components to the overall application. For example, if you developed a fast XML processing application that you wanted to … Continue Reading about mozilla/xpcom/javascript →
A Tale of Two Encodings
In my last post I explained the basics of how we will be handling MARC records as XML. To recap, we will store our bibliographic record as MARC21slim XML documents. This format is recommended and maintained by the Library of Congress, so we feel confident using it. Now we just need to morph our binary … Continue Reading about A Tale of Two Encodings →
Staff Client Themes and Skins
Previously, we mentioned CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and how it allows us to separate presentation from content in our Mozilla-based applications. We have a few screenshots to demonstrate this. Let’s start with some drastic examples: