On Fri, 2005-22-04 at 15:47 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > I mean that it could be possible to display a dialogue in a web page in > the users language just with the information wich dialogue should be > presented. This cleary would mean that the user has to have Gnome and/or > Gtk installed. Maybe this would be primarily useful for documentation. > It could reduce the bytes used for images. I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're saying, but here's my response, supposing you mean web pages should be rendered using the client's widget toolkit. Mozilla has had this for years (using XUL/Javascript). Microsoft is working on Avalon, which is (as I understand it) a .NET-based clone of XUL with enough hype to maybe make it successful (and without the freedom of open-source). So, what can we do in Epiphany? Well, we could clone XUL to make it look more GTK-ish. But Firefox developers are working hard enough on that, and we get their changes automatically. So we don't really need to do anything :). The real issue is that no company will bother to develop a XUL-based web page, since only around 5% of their customers will be able to experience it. Also, excepting obfuscation, anybody could copy their Javascript code, so all XUL-based web pages are essentially open-source by their very nature. Companies really don't like that (they prefer to use idiotic notions like "intellectual property"). Currently, people generally use Java for rich clients. In the future, they'll use Avalon, which will solve both problems mentioned above (it'll be popular and use compiled bytecode). Or they'll stick with HTML. -- Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>
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