Flickr Uploadr: Open Source and Powered by XULRunner

Flickr Uploadr: Open Source and Powered by XULRunner (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
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First off, the new Flickr Uploadr is built on top of Mozilla technology--XULRunner to be specific. If you haven't heard of XULRunner...

XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It will provide mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications. XULRunner will also provide libxul, a solution which allows the embedding of Mozilla technologies in other projects and products.

The choice to build on XULRunner is something that I discussed with Richard Crowley in this video for our Experts at Work series on YDN Theater.