On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:18:27 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:

> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:34:42 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:40:45 -0500 Jose Gonzalez <jose_...@juno.com>
> > said:
> > 
> > > oeai wrote:
> > > > Well i was thinking about using gifs recently but i was thinking
> > > > in the way of html5 and decided that i can produce a better image
> > > > (because i got more controls in for example jquery) by providing
> > > > some special workaround for images. so i've created an animated
> > > > <li> table full of <li><img></li> and just told the script to act
> > > > as it can - so actually i can even set the particular place and
> > > > orientation of each image and this works and the resolution of
> > > > images is good and this is what would be interesting to do with
> > > > icons and backgrounds. well maybe you wont just use those gifs or
> > > > videos but this can be an html background?
> > > >
> > > > Subject: Re: [E-devel] here is the new-UI for E17 if you want to
> > > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:49:32 -0500 Jose
> > > > Gonzalez<jose_...@juno.com> wrote:
> > > >   
> > > >> /me fails to make jokes about beating things with cocks.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> This person is not so good at expressing themselves in English,
> > > >> and there are some other ideas in the animated GIF they posted
> > > >> other than a dock with a clock.  Some of them might be good
> > > >> ideas to. 
> > > 
> > >     I don't know about the state of an webkit-efl edje external
> > > module, but if so then you could conceivably wrap this via an edje
> > > and have it set as an e17 background (though I can imagine Cedric
> > > groaning about the overhead).
> > >     However, this is exactly the kind of capability (modulo the
> > > html5 part) that an e17 shell-skinning mechanism would enable...
> > > You would thus create your notion of an e17 desktop-shell and
> > > distribute it for people to try out, just as is done with
> > > widgetry/gadgetry themes, backgrounds, etc. The same as those
> > > DesktopX and Rainmeter skins enable in the Windows world to great
> > > effect. But it remains to be done.
> > 
> > aaah webkit in your background.. be prepared to see your memory
> > vanish then. :) i'm not going to do it.
> 
> Think there's more than just Cedric will groan about that.
> 
> /me adds to the chorus of groans.
> 
> Just as a datapoint - a typical Second Life virtual world viewer is
> already a bloated montser, and one third of that is webkit.  It's not
> tiny.

indeed. and there is a big difference between it being your browser.. or second
life viewer... this is your application. the thing you want to run. if it uses
memory - go ahead... but if your desktop env is chewing away memory FROM your
apps because someone things its great to have webkit there.. thats memory NOT
available to apps...

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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