Re: Opera for Linux

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> > That's a price for cross-platform compatibility, s'often the same with
> > stuff
> > like that. :(
>
> I don't think it has to be though. Abstracting native GUI elements has to
> be better than hand drawing them all as Netscape seems to do. I didn't
> set up my GTK themes for nothing.

Well, how do you hook into the native elements though? Do you assume a panel
handler, like Java, with autolayout, or do you assume you can add them where
you like? How you receive messages from the GUI? Does each button trigger an
event? Do you have to give each button a call-back? It's not that simple...

> There's not much there ATM (The layout engine is still in flux, and images
> are a bit dicey), but they have some interesting ideas.

Thanks, I'll take a look...

Cheers,

Alex.


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