Subj : Re: Microsoft
To   : hollowone
From : Tracker1
Date : Tue Apr 04 2023 00:53:53

  Re: Re: Microsoft
  By: hollowone to Tracker1 on Sun Apr 02 2023 13:11:00

 Tr>> To be clear, Java isn't JavaScript.  The JS UI was started with NN6
 Tr>> using an XML UI templating language called XUL.  Riff on
 Tr>> Ghostbusters, "There is no data. There is only XUL!"

 ho> I knew the bell wasn't ringing far from truth. Thanks for pointing me to
 ho> the right waters. I'd not mistake java with javascript, perhaps my memory
 ho> resonated with the wrong echo from the beginning.

Yeah... I worked with it a bit, and enjoyed it for what it offered at the time.

Timely blog post..
https:/crisal.io/words/2023/03/30/xul-layout-is-gone.html

 ho> I know XUL, it was pitched by Mozilla years after NN collapsed as
 ho> something that may help Javascript conquer desktop app development. It
 ho> never resonated though.

Yeah, it was ahead of its' time, considering how popular electron is today.

 ho> But that makes sense to me, if XUL predecessor as Wikipedia claims
 ho> developed initially by Netscape Communications in around 1997 was
 ho> responsible for NN6 rendering and I experienced it around 1999/2000 with
 ho> my Celeron 300Mhz, no brainer it was slow as hell.

 ho> Now I even found right reference regarding this XUL thing to impact
 ho> performance on slower machine at the time of NN6 release

Yeah, it was very bad before 2000 or so, but on anything over 1ghz was pretty decent.  On today's hardware you wouldn't even notice.
  
   
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