Squeak textbox and events.

Jerome Chan eviltofu at earthlink.net
Sun May 13 00:22:15 UTC 2001


on 12/05/2001 8:03 PM, Scott A Crosby at crosby at qwes.math.cmu.edu wrote:

> On Sat, 12 May 2001, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> 
>> Scott,
>> 
>> Why build yet another proprietary data structure, rather than just use a
>> DOM-tree?  That would allow one to leverage existing and coming XML/DOM
>> work.
> 
> I apologize for being unclear. This was the interface I was suggesting to
> the textbox GUI display.
> 
> I doubt that it would be easy to make a quick GUI display engine run off
> of a DOM tree natively, at least without a lot of additional indexing
> structures, so there has to be some other internal format that it gets
> mapped to for display. I was suggesting one possible interface to that
> format, based on an interface that I already know and appreciate.
> 
> IE, I want a better implementation of postscript, not talking about
> another propreitary document file format..
> 
> But, if somene is coming up with a really powerful DOM format and the
> display engine to display for it, please tell me when it's expected to be
> done, and what the expected display functionality is. I can't wait!!!
> 
> 
> Scott
> 
> 

Ok so if we have a flexible DOM based GUI and use SOAP/XML-RPC for a back
end, we would have another web browser?

Just thinking out loud.





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