On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:59:47 -0500 Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:
> At 06:36 PM 3/12/2003 +0100, Stefan Held wrote:
> >Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 10.17 schrieb Richard Martin:
> > > Sorry to kick up this thread again, but...
> > >
> > > Why not make the background an html browser which supports plug-ins.
> > > That way backgrounds could be written in plain html, html with
> > > javascript or even Flash. You can't get more flexible than that.
> > >
> >
> >Come on guys you ever watched your CPU Stress if you look at a flash
> >site with mozilla? I think nobody realy want's a background that is
> >eating 30% of their CPU's power.
> >
> >Get back to the Ground.
>
> Is this seriously being considered for E 17 ?? Hah, I remember someone
> suggested it two years ago maybe, a la MS Windows "Active Desktop", and it
> was promptly shot down. Comments like it will "never" happen were made by
> Rasterman himself.
I'm not having html on e's desktop. it's a limited formatting language, slow to
parse & turn into usable data for a process to display. and bugger if i'm going
to write a web browser to make people happy & do this. if someone else wants to
go write a web browser/html display widget for this.. more power to them, BUT i
have no plans on supporting this. i have much better plans in place & am working
(slowly) towards making them a reality. my eventual plans are to have the
desktop background managed by a separate process to e - evidence would be one,
or any other you want to put there that works with e. i'm working (slowly) to
build the infrastructure to eventually have shared canvases and that means any
number of processes can run and display in the "desktop canvas" sharing it
nicely with alpha blending, layering etc.
i repeat. there's enough work as is, without writing a web browser. and no we're
not going to go "use moilla/geko" and suddenly make that part of a wm. :)
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