Netscape's army of open-source programmers may not have turned the tide in the browser wars, but that hasn't stopped some followers from moving on to the next front in the battle for control of the Internet. Mozilla.org, founded by Netscape to develop its browser in an open-source environment, has long touted its technology as a potential foundation for building applications such as word processors or spreadsheets for the Web--an area Microsoft and others covet. One of these technologies, dubbed XUL (XML-based User Interface Language, pronounced "zool"), launched with Netscape's promise that it could spur a "programming revolution" beyond the realm of browser development.
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