[Members] Motion for Last Call on JEP 88
Marshall Rose
mrose+mtr.jsf at dbc.mtview.ca.us
Thu Mar 18 06:57:43 CST 2004
> ...
> Not all programming languages or client designs
> can support webtabs. I know that Tk sucks just enough that it doesn't
> have an html renderer. Nor can it encapsulate another window and make
> it appear as part of the application.
i think we're getting far afield here (certainly the version of tk that
i'm using does those things), but i don't think that's the relevant
point, which is actually:
> Plus, how do you handle command line clients? There is no GUI with
> which to display HTML.
>
> My fear about making this a standard is that it's a standard that not
> everyone can meet.
well, that is the problem, isn't it: how to do bitmapped stuff when the
client is a text-only CLI.
/mtr
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