On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Niall Kavanagh wrote:
>> Display PostScript seems to be widely regarded as a great example of the
>> wrong thing to do.
>
> What makes you say that? (honest question! not a troll!) Seems like it
> makes rather a lot of sense to me; what with the way display technology is
> taking off and all.
I'm no expert; I just know that various X11 Gods have expressed their
extreme dislike for it. It may have simply been the licensing issues; it may
have been something more. I'm sure the X newsgroup regulars could tell you
all about it, if you really want to know. I don't. :-)
> The current setup of doing stuff on a pixel level will hold us back...
Possibly true, but I feel that it is worth pointing out that the reason X is
still in use after all this time is that it implements such a low-level
protocol that anyone can use it for any purpose. Thus, it hasn't been
necessary to reinvent the wheel. Perhaps we should be looking at reinventing
it, but we haven't *needed* to. :-)
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Ben Scott
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