This sentence is seen on the Mozilla documentation for XUL. What does the word chrome mean in this context?
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This sentence is seen on the Mozilla documentation for XUL. What does the word chrome mean in this context?
It is a euphemism for the graphical framework and elements surrounding the content, and thus means different things depending on the context.
In the context of a web browser it is the navigation, toolbar etc.
In the context of a website it is navigation, ad-space and other fixed aspects of the design.
The term “user interface chrome” is synonymous with “graphical user interface” or GUI for short, a term you are probably more familiar with.
In the context your are referring to in the
browser.typedocumentation, it is actually just a way for the XUL framework to load privileged content via a URI. The name here may seem a little misused, but for the most part, this is the way the XUL framework loads all graphcis used to build the browser chrome, and as such it goes well with the first context i described.