- From: Gil Hauer <gilh@technolog.ca>
- Date: 01 Sep 2003 10:35:55 -0400
- To: public-web-plugins@w3.org
Well, I'm far from an expert in these matters however one technology that I recall which may predate these claims is NeWS (Network Extensible Window Manager) from Sun. If I recall correctly this was essentially a postscript client that communicated with a server and into which postscript applications were delivered and in which they were executed. Here's something I found at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?copy=NeWs: "NeWS was a window system for Unix, especially Sun workstations, designed primarily by JamesGosling. It was like X in that it was a network window system, with programs running on other machines able to open windows for display on your machine. It was unlike X in that the graphics model was DPS, and it allowed downloading PostScript code into the window system to run locally. This helped to avoid some of the nasty race conditions you have in X, where (for example) even the window manager runs out-of-process; in NeWS, you could write the window manager in PostScript and run it directly in the window system process." The key might be it's ability to download and execute postscript code into a running application ... Cheers, Gil
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