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XPFE & XPToolkit permit consistent '''creation''' of user interfaces across the 3 major platforms. As for why the two names: "'XPToolkit' is rather synonymous with XPFE. Though the former term seems more concrete than the other, and therefore is not an exact replacement, no one is completely certain why we have both." [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Introduction_to_XUL#Terms]. From here on in we'll refer to XPFE (because it's shorter to type). Note: This is also commonly refered to as Toolkit.
XPFE uses [[XUL]], [[XBL]], and [[RDF]] to achive the goal of being able to programmatlically instantiate a button (for example) using the same api no matter what platfrom you are on. XPFE uses a combination native and custom widgets to achieve the toolkit. However, from the an api perspective , it is platform neutral.
[[XUL]] and [[XBL]] is responsible for creating the widgets. [[RDF]]'s are used to be able to deal with the multiple data sources that are required to deal with the different i18n, l10n, and themeing issues involved in the toolkit. == Sources References ==
* [http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xulref/ XUL Programmers Reference]
* [http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/ The Moz Wiki XPFE page]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Introduction_to_XUL#Terms Intro To XUL]
