- From: Gil Hauer <gilh@technolog.ca>
- Date: 01 Sep 2003 11:30:03 -0400
- To: public-web-plugins@w3.org
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:44, Richard M. Smith wrote: > Sounds promising. Did NeWS also allow external programs to take over a > part of a NeWS window and display content in it? A simple example might > a clock program that runs on the client side. > If I can recall back that far (around 1988 :) X11 was actually a thread running in the NeWS server (xnews) so that applications could poke through their own content. The basic idea of NeWS was that the user interface part of an application (i.e., drawing a selection box) would run on the local machine and simply send the higher-level results (i.e. the two corners of the selection) to an application running on a server. The side-effect of this was lower network bandwidth requirements than X11 (only two co-ordinates are sent at the end of an operation rather than each mouse movement). Gil
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