JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 26 Dec 2001: 

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>> Nope, it's possible.  You just have to do the work.
>> 
>> Mozilla currently renders it's own controls so all it uses are the
>> basic drawing routines.  It currently uses GTK on linux, but it
>> doesn't use GTK's scroll bars, it just draws it's own.
>>
> 
> In other words, literally everything is completely reinvented from
> scratch, and not only that, reinvented poorly and via interpreted
> ASCII text.
> 

Exactly.  And that strangely lets it run on a dozen platforms and things 
like the Playstation2 with very little porting required.  Amazing, isn't 
it?  Did you hear, it even loads pages faster than IE6!  All that from 
ASCII text and poorly reinvented wheels

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