Firefox Hacks: Make New Tags and Widgets With XBL from O'Reilly Media White Papers at ZDNet.co.uk

The HTML and XHTML standards allow a content author to extend the set of composition elements on a web page by applying special styles to the

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and tags and their content. A styled

block might appear to be a navigation bar, an advertisement, or some other specialized content that HTML does not explicitly define. XML Binding Language (XBL) is an alternate strategy for naming features of web pages. This paper shows how the reader might use it. XBL is a Mozilla technology that's slowly being adopted by the W3C. In Firefox, XBL is used to create a new tag for any XML or HTML dialect, but most frequently for XUL.

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