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Sun's NeWS previously used Postscript extended with an event system. Of course that meant a heavyweight display client running arbitrary code in an interpreted
by kps 11y ago
Sun's NeWS previously used Postscript extended with an event system. Of course that meant a heavyweight display client running arbitrary code in an interpreted Turing-complete language communicating with application backends over a network, and something that ridiculous could never catch on.
- protomyth 11y agoOn the serious side, it would have made an interesting alternate to the web.
- icedchai 11y agoAnd what we have today with HTML/CSS/JS is better, right? ;)
- TickleSteve 11y agointeresting parallel... yes we should scrap the JS/HTML/CSS mess and go back to straight PS.... ;o)
- kps 11y agoThat was the target, yes. NeWS was too big and too slow, but what we ended up with instead is ten times slower, a hundred times larger, and a thousand times uglier. The promise of the world wide web of target-independent structural markup turned out to have its fingers crossed.
- gcb0 11y agoirix5 or 6 had the system settings application as a Mozilla xul application running JavaScript. that was early nineties
- icedchai 11y agoEarly 2000's maybe. Xul wasn't around until 99 or so.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat's what I said about centralized computing rooms with big iron racks that charged per account for specific amounts of data served to dumb clients over a network. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft say they've never heard of these mainframes. I swear something looks familiar about their feature sheet, though. Probably best not to give them any more ideas. ;)