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People complained about the amount of RAM NeWS apps took up, too. In retrospect we realized NeWS was a missed opportunity to revolutionize networked-app UI. El
by bitwize 4y ago
People complained about the amount of RAM NeWS apps took up, too. In retrospect we realized NeWS was a missed opportunity to revolutionize networked-app UI.
Electron is the dream of NeWS for current-era hardware and software. In the future we won't even blink at the space it takes up.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoI've never seen the acronym NeWS before.
- bitwize 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS It was one of the competitors to X back in the day. Basically all the window painting and client-side logic would be handled by an extended PostScript interpreter, which would receive and run the client code from the application, much like we do with HTML/CSS/JS today.