Exploring XUL in Mozilla: The Bulletinboard Tag

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Before <bulletinboard>, if you wanted to create animation in Mozilla, you'd have to use HTML and absolute positioning since XUL didn't support that. The reason is that the box model on which XUL is based uses flexibility and relative positioning of elements. (This gives you things like "intrinsic sizing" where the window arranges itself based on the size needs of all the widgets it contains.) You can find many examples of animation using this CSS absolute positioning methodology in any...n

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