I’m happy that I can write that for the first time in Media Factory (where I’m working as PHP developer) is used XULRunner from Mozilla Foundation as a base of application for one of our customers. Is an application for advisers of one Czech financial company which offers mortgages. Originally was written (about a year ago by another developer) as a HTML/JavaScript application for Internet Explorer only (it using ActiveX components for writing/reading XML files to disk and for XMLHttpRequests) but because we got repeatedly reported errors after some of Microsoft own updates we had to decide what to do with it and because I’m responsible for that I made a proposal of using of XULRunner and this proposal was accepted :) .

Here are some screenshots trom the original application running in Internet Explorer 7:

And here are screenshots from the new version based on XULRunner (running on Kwort Linux):

And here is the list of advanteges we got for free:

  • cross-and-well-tested platform (I’m successfully tested it on Windows XP, Vista and Linux without any changes)
  • support for updates and extensions
  • it’s faster than same application made as set of static HTML pages with JScript on IE