Cross-platform GUI widgets?

[Aaron Grewell]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
>> According to the MozillaFirebird page, they are now using GTK2.  No 
>> clue abouty
>> OO.
> 
> 
> There must be more to it than that. Unless GTK2 now runs on Windows.
> 


GTK2 does run on Windows, but that's not what they did.  They wrote a 
set of libraries as part of the Mozilla core that abstract the differing 
UI calls.  That way their XUL (eXtensible User interface Library IIRC) 
code always looks native.