[2009-09-07 21:47] Dieter Plaetinck <die...@plaetinck.be> > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:35:50 +0200 > markus schnalke <mei...@marmaro.de> wrote: > > > > Read my slides, I clearly state this: Take the broken render engine as > > black box and add sane interfaces around. > > > (..) > > > > It's the web browser that complies better with the Unix Philosophy > > than any other I've seen. Only the render engine sucks (of course). > > But it may get exchanged ... it's only a black box anyway. > > "black box" may be just a bit too far, but generally I think yes, > if the library you depend on works, and you only need to work with it, not on > it, > then it doesn't matter much how ugly or big the codebase is. (as long as the > api is reasonable).
Right, it's not a black box ... but it should be. And the API should also be better. That's the reason why I call `uzbl' an example ... it's the best implementation of the concepts I have in mind, I know of. meillo
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