Talk:How to do a Hello World application using XULRunner
I tried the tutorial again. This time the tutorial is much clearer. However, I found out a few things that could improve this tutorial:
- A link to XULRunner runtime package and mention that they have to download this package to run applications using XULRunner
- I managed to get a hello world application running with XULRunner, however, I missed out downloading the XULRunner runtime package. As this was the first time running a XULRunner application (with no background knowledge in XULRunner/XUL - perfect candidate to test your XULRunner tutorials), I had to browse around and figure out why the application wasn't running.
- You should let the user know that they should acquire the XULRunner before creating the directory structure (assuming that they don't have any background in XUL or XULRunner - which is your target audience, am I right?)
- Do you want a batch script that will create the dirs for you??
- Screenshot of the application:
First look at the tutorial, it's not as straight forward as I expected it to be, for someone who has no background on XULRunner at all.
It will be helpful if the user doesn't have to browse away to get a basic idea.
Suggestions:
- Brief introduction?
- Can you explain briefly what each item is?
- Example: Setting up the application.ini file - What does this do?? In your tutorial, it just says "The following is a sample application.ini file."
- For each item, if the explaination for the item is long, maybe provide a link to the actual documentation of it??
