Oops, I meant to send this to the list, not just Alexander -- apologies for that. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Alexander Voigt <Hole.destructor@gmx.de> wrote:

Maybe this is a solution to the upcomming problem(s). ?What one needs to do is to build an abstraction and an implementor and pack all toolkit specific things into concrete implementors (i.e. the FLTK 2.0, or FLTK 1.3 specific things).

There's one obvious problem there: the toolkit is *already* an abstraction. ?(FLTK's not strictly an abstraction layer, because it implements its own widget set, but the purpose of any toolkit is to provide some sort of abstraction over the native APIs.) On top of that, this "solution" doesn't really solve anything -- it still takes time away from development, requires developers to learn the new abstraction layer, and won't make up for functional incompatibilities/missing features between different toolkits or versions. ?It sounds like a great idea in theory -- and IIRC, the Dillo renderer (but not the rest of the interface) is already built on an abstraction layer -- but in practice it would mostly amount to needlessly re-inventing the wheel. Disclaimer: I'm not one of the core developers, and this is only my personal view. ~Benjamin