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:

• Fixed some spelling errors

• A link to XULRunner runtime package and mention that they have to download this package to run applications using XULRunner

• There shouldn't be spaces before <?xml version="1.0"?>, it gives an error (see below):

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>

  <window id="main" title="My App" width="300" height="300"
    xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">
    <caption label="Hello World"/>
  </window>

Should be:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>

  <window id="main" title="My App" width="300" height="300"
    xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">
    <caption label="Hello World"/>
  </window>

• Error that was given:

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• 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??

• Nonetheless, I created my FIRST application using XULRunner :)

• Screenshot of the application:

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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??

(elichak)