Flickr Uploader on XULRunner
February 14th, 2008 by Gen KanaiJeremy Zawodny has a very nice interview [Flickr Uploadr: Open Source and Powered by XULRunner] with Yahoo! developer Richard Crowley who was responsible for building the new Flickr Uploader on XULRunner (Mozilla’s runtime package which enables anyone to create cross-platform applications.) Richard discusses how Yahoo! looked at both Adobe Air as well as XULRunner and the key differentiators for XULRunner included:
- linking in outside code (vs. Air which cannot pull in outside libraries)
- multi-threaded (vs. Air which is single-threaded)
- extendable (like Firefox is)
Flickr Uploader is available in English, French, traditional Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
For those of you who are interested in XUL or XULRunner, it’s an interesting interview, especially when Richard discusses how there may be a future for user-developed extensions to Flickr Uploader.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
It’s ridiculous that they choose a backend like XULRunner that could easily be built for all three major platforms, then completely forget about Linux. I suppose I am still stuck with buggy, third-party Flickr uploaders.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Sam, I agree. It is disappointing that they did not release a Linux build.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:29 am
I know it is based on xulrunner which is cross plataform, but why in the flickr’s project homepage it does not mention linux support, but windows and mac only ?
does it work on linux ?
March 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
i manage to RUN it on linux (kde mandriva) but it doesn’t work…
flickr made the uploader from scratch to run on Windows and Mac…
http://roiji.i.ph/photo/v/Photos/My+Screen/FlickrUploaderonlinux.png.html