Hello, Lars Segerlund wrote:
There has been a lot of talk about toolkits and dillo, and I had a small idea. What about using lesstif ( Motif ) for dillo ? It's fairly small ( you can bring only the widgets you need ) and if done with some care a statically linked dillo would not be bloated.
You immediately would have a supporter! a tester and partially a coder too.
I can have a look at it, but I would like the general opinion first, ( I would even give Xt a shot :-) that way it would be FAST & SMALL ).
Well, Xt is pretty extreme, maybe Xaw in case then. Anyway rememebr that most graphic part in Xm is just passed over to Xt calls. I have already proposed and welcomed a motif port. Lately I am coding a bit on my IRC application written in it and am always surprised by the speed and the cleaniness of the result GTK doesn't even get close. But Motif is tricky, do something wrong and you end with a segfault. It is quite low-level sometimes and tied to X11 quite a bit. Even if I learned quite a deal of Motif, doing a port of dillo myself would be out of reach. But I could probably help. Also I have various OSs with different Motif implementations, from 1.1 to 2.1. It's great for testing. My desperation for motif was so great that I went up to digging out mMosaic! and the last beta of it is interesting. It is so fast in the interface (menus, scrolling etc) although the parser is often inferior to dillo. I never coded a single line of Athena though. VIM supports athena, motif, gtk and lately QT even. It would be nice to be able to accomplish this in dillo too! -R