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I sometimes browse with Dillo ( https://www.dillo.org/ https://www.dillo.org/ ) and although there are a lot of sites that are broken, there are many that rende
by carapace 7y ago
I sometimes browse with Dillo ( https://www.dillo.org/ https://www.dillo.org/ ) and although there are a lot of sites that are broken, there are many that render just fine. (E.g. http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page66.html http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page66.html )
Dillo finishes starting before I finish clicking on its icon.
(As in, it loads and displays itself all in the moment between the button-pressed and button-released events.)
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Check out Effbot's "Generating Tkinter User Interfaces from XML" https://www.effbot.org/zone/element-tkinter.htm https://www.effbot.org/zone/element-tkinter.htm
There's a gulf between that and XUL, eh? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL )
"The Wheel of Reincarnation" has been turning for a long time now:
http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland-design-of-display-processors.pdf http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...
X Windows!? NeWS? Postscript and PDF? (PDF has JS in now!) I'm sure we could fill a book just with languages and frameworks for GUI, eh? VPRI STEPS program created Nile, etc...
Display problem, Y U NO solved yet?
Why hasn't something (better than HTML/CSS/JS soups) congealed in this area? Is it really so hard? Are we just running in circles?