Yanni Chiu <yanni at rogers.com> wrote:

> > "ajbarrosbr" <ajbn at cin.ufpe.br> wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I have seen the term "bit-identical" mentioned many times on this
> > > list.
> > > Sorry for that, I suppose, newbie question, but could someone
> > > elaborate more on the topic
> 
> I guess image portability, mentioned by Goran, is one
> interpretation. But I've always taken "bit-identical"
> to mean that you see the same bits on the screen, regardless
> of platform. The few times I've worked on a cross-platform
> application, it would look different on each platform because
> the fonts were slightly different (so line breaks occured in
> different places), window decorations were different (look,
> size & behaviour), colours were rendered differently,
> ...and so on.
I'd say you're both correct. The nice thing about squeak is that both
runs and looks the same. And the issue of font sizes etc is one of the
problem points for use of host OS widgets.


tim
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