Greetings. On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:33:00 +0200 Joerg Zinke <m...@umaxx.net> wrote: > > Am 14.04.2012 um 17:38 schrieb Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com>: > > > But that aside, the distinction between TUIs and GUIs is completely > > artificial. The only difference is that a "TUI" *cannot* display > > images, even when it might be useful. > > I think you are wrong. An example for a TUI with images is w3m com‐ > piled with inline images.
Images in w3m are a huge hack[0]. W3m is spawning an extra process to do the whole X11 work, where it is simply drawing to the X11 window the xterm it is running in. There were proposals[1] to do graphics over ttys, but the web destroyed them in its advent. Regaining strength in such a technology first needs a working terminal for them and then applications using these proto‐ cols. With technical people floating directly into every new Apple gadget such a dream needs to be implemented in Go, using HTML5 and of course the first target is iTunes/AppStore compatibility. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann [0] http://w3m.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/w3m/w3m/w3mimg/ [1] http://home.comcast.net/~johnkwasnik/RIP/rip.html
