On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alexander Teinum <atei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally I would love to see a minimalistic replacement, and I have > followed the Wayland development for some time. Since the computer is > almost never used without a web browser, I’d like to see the web > browser engine run in fullscreen and have all applications – including > the system that organizes the applications and the terminal > implemented by using web technologies. This is slightly bit off-topic, > but my point is that we may never see another generation of “X.Org + > window manager + GTK/QT + applications built on these toolkits”-like > architecture built from scratch ever again.
man, it's no better in the web world! there's no "standard library", everybody's got a toolkit they prefer (that they built from scratch *on top of* JS/HTML/CSS). just off the top of my head, I can name jquery ui, sproutcore, ext.js, dijit (dojo), cappuccino (obj-J), closure (google), and those are just the big ones! even worse, remember that all of those are written in an interpreted language (JIT at best!), running inside a browser that has its own quirks and differences from other browsers, and then *that* gets run under your already-sub-par window system. the web on the desktop is *not* the solution, it just makes the problem worse. -w
