Ancient (1996?) Tablet PC and Squeak

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Aug 15 22:45:38 UTC 2003


To me, the real problems have not to do with HTML rendering but with 
dealing with some of the vanilla plugins -- such as Java and Flash....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:28 PM -0700 8/15/03, John M McIntosh wrote:
>I'll point out that Apple has been working on WebCore, a framework 
>interface to
>the cross-platform KHTML library (part of the KDE project).
>
>Work in this area should lead to a library that one can use to 
>render  HTML (on many platforms).
>
>http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/index.html
>
>PS I'd also think other folks have similar ideas.
>
>On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 10:55  AM, Alan Kay wrote:
>
>>Hi David --
>>
>>The copying and pasting sounds very tedious very quickly.
>>
>>Duane Maxwell and his group at exobox did a great thing, which was 
>>to  run Mozilla as a Squeak plugin -- they used it to catch cases 
>>that  they had not written specific UIs for, and I had the 
>>impression that  this worked very well. It would be interesting to 
>>see whether this is  still a reasonable idea.... this is one of 
>>those cases where it is  probably not worth it to even try to 
>>reverse engineer a hefty subset  of modern browser features (as 
>>ugly as they might be)....
>>
>>But I'm curious as to the opinions of others on the list regarding 
>>this issue.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Alan--
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