Since I am a menter in , I would like to update what I and my student was done last month. My student is working hard on developing XUL-based Drupal Manager project. That's a short description. For a long one, he is developing a next generation of graphics user interface based on XML technology, aka XUL, proposed by Mozilla. XUL is a candidate for Web 2.0, another one is AJAX. AJAX seems to be better because it runs on most browsers while XUL can only run on Mozilla-based browsers. However, in other point of view, there is a possibility to run XUL on any XUL engine. Some day, XUL engine might be integrated into OS like Java or .Net.

My student posted a progress update to describe what he did last month. That's very interesting since his code can interact with Drupal via XML-RPC interface such as rendering the full form and a part of it. In other words, you can work with most parts of Drupal via XUL interface. It is very interactive one. The most promising feature of this project is multi-site management capability. It should let us import or export contents between two sites. If you have time, try demo.

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