If I understand this correctly, a user would need to manually download the .XPT file to the Components folder, and manually run the REGXPCOM.EXE program before she would be able to use the website functions that depended on the XPCOM object.
From a user's point of view, that sounds like a bunch of unnecessary work. Why couldn't the programmer build a Java applet instead? The applet would be cross platform functional and self-installing.
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Sorry I didn't specify this in my article, but Mozilla offers a technology for installing XPCOM components through XPInstall. You can find more information about this on mozilla.org. Although different, the general concept is like installable ActiveX components for IE.
Here's a good explanation of XPInstall:
http://developer-test.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_XPInstall_to_Install_Plugins
Here's a good explanation of XPInstall:
http://developer-test.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_XPInstall_to_Install_Plugins
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