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Why would someone implement such an awful protocol as X11 when they could just directly render. They could make application-level X11 clients for legacy X apps
by loewenskind 16y ago
Why would someone implement such an awful protocol as X11 when they could just directly render. They could make application-level X11 clients for legacy X apps running on some server somewhere if they wish, there's no reason to cripple the whole experience with X11.
- kragen 16y agoIt's hard to understand your question because the quality of its writing is as poor as its punctuation. Can you clarify? What do you mean by "directly render", "application-level X11 clients", "they", and "server"? Perhaps you were suggesting that remotely displaying a window of, say, FrameMaker in your browser would be better done by rasterizing the application window on the same machine where FrameMaker was running, as with Xvnc, only as a browser plugin. That is indeed a workable and fairly simple solution, but it usually uses a lot more bandwidth on the network and memory on the machine running FrameMaker than just running X11, particularly with LBX or ssh compressing the X11 protocol.
- loewenskind 16y agoThe question is pretty straight forward, but where are the punctuation issues? Are expecting more commas?
- ramchip 16y agoWhen asking a question, you should use a question mark. Your last comma should be a colon or semicolon, or even better, you could split the sentence in two. I find it perfectly readable anyway, but I'm quite sure the comment is technically right.
- loewenskind 16y agoUsing a period instead of a question mark is a writing technique to imply that the question isn't really a question (most commonly used to form polite but firm requests). Touchè on the [semi]colon.