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August 12, 2005
xul:richlistbox
Mozilla 1.8's toolkit (ergo Firefox/Thunderbird) now contains a new XUL widget, the richlistbox. As the name implies, it acts like a listbox, but can contain rich content, meaning any markup. To see a richlistbox in action, open your favorite manager (Extension/Theme/Download) in Firefox/Thunderbird. They use it to allow a rich, yet keyboard accessible view of data.
Developer information at Devmo and a live sample (requires a recent Firefox nightly) here.
It doesn't support muli-selection yet. The code is pretty much ready, but probably won't make it into 1.8.
Posted by doron at August 12, 2005 02:19 PM
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That's pretty cool. Is the rich content idea going to be applied to other elements like drop down menus too?
Posted by: colin at August 12, 2005 02:39 PM
wow, that's a really neat control. Does it support drag and drop?
Posted by: Todd at August 12, 2005 02:57 PM
Now, it should be the time to implement into Thunderbird MS Outlook like mail listings and alert box.
Posted by: András Bártházi at August 13, 2005 05:34 AM
It's a good start but it is not behaving too well regarding mouse events.
Is there a tracking bug for this in Bugzilla or should I start filing new separate bugs for it?
Does it support multiple selection?
Posted by: Erik Arvidsson at August 21, 2005 09:57 AM