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It could be said that for many developers, the only thing that stops them from developing Firefox add-ons is that XUL is just the ugliest language in the known universe. Didn’t anybody learn the lesson of XSLT? XML-based languages are just too ugly for human eyes.
But with Firefox Jetpack, developers now have the option to script Firefox using Javascript - a language that, while it may have it’s flaws - definitely contains a core of rich creamy coding goodness.
This is a slick move on Firefox’s part, too. Nothing drives adoption of a new technology like the feeling that it should be easy and fun to hack on - and nothing gives that feeling like a developer fiddling with an understandable chunk of code, in real-time, and making interesting results appear.
