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Article #495Re: ** Toward a Portable OO GUI Library **
From: Kevyn Ford
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:18
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:18
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emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) writes: >The model (even if practice doesn't live up to it) for IEEE and other >formal standards is to codify existing practice. I don't think >there's enough existing practice out there to standardize on yet. >There are some commercial products (e.g. XVT, Galaxy, and Galaxy is >supposed to be the most 00-like) but in the absence of reasonable >experience with existing practice, I believe formal standardization to >be premature. Beyond that, you must realize that a portable application like XVT compared to something written in native Motif or MS Windows simply cannot compare. How do you compensate for its shortcomings? IMHO you will *never* see a truly portable GUI for the same reasons you will *never* see a truly portable OS (don't even _thing_ about saying *nix). The best we'll ever be able to hope for is ONE GUI for each OS (Motif on Unix, MS Windows on DOS, PM on OS/2, etc). -- +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | Kevyn B. Ford | kevyn@kodak.com (main) | | Eastman Kodak Company | kevyn@world.std.com (secondary) | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
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