Gerald Bauer wrote:
Hello,
allow me to highlight Ian "Hixie" Hickson's blog
story titled "First Day of the Workshop".
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Claiming that such APIs are simply insanely
complicated, and that making interoperable
implementations is nigh on impossible is of course a
self-serving lie.
Let's take Sun's Java APIs as an example. What's up
with write once, run anywhere? Do you and does Sun
agree that all the Java APIs are simply insanely
complicated, and that making interoperable
implementations is nigh on impossible? Was Sun lying
to us all those years?
What's up with Eclipse and the Standard Widget Toolkit API? Isn't such an API simply insanely complicated, and making interoperable implementations nigh on impossible?
How come Eclipse offers the Standard Widget Toolkit API for aix/motif, hpux/motif, linux/gtk, linux/motif, linux/qt, macos/carbon, qnx/photon, solaris/motif, win32/win32, and even win32-ce/win32?
Is Eclipse the next generation browser? Has anyone at the workshop asked IBM what this Rich Client Platform Markup Language (RCPML) thingy is all about?
Full story @
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1086158925&count=1
Any thoughts? Any comments?
I have to agree that the entire opinion is baloney. The reason they don't want to cooperate is it suits nobody's business interest to cooperate. If, for instance, Java is so hard to 'recreate' then how come a handful of volunteers have come up with things like GCJ and GNU Classpath, to mention but a few.
Is Eclipse the next generation browser? No, it's a DE for programmers. Does it use technologies that could make up the next generation browser? Plausibly. The momentum is with Mozilla though. Mozilla is the next generation browser if it continues it's progress.
Regards
- Charlie
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