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- From: djb@cbnews.cb.att.com (david.j.bryant)
- Subject: Re: SunSoft Windows Toolkits Positioning
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Ohio
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:37:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.113710.27550@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: xview, olit
- References: <lg0f6pINNsak@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <15435@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- Regarding "SunSoft Windows Toolkits Positioning", guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- writes:
- >> We strongly encourage developers to use OLIT for any NEW
- >> applications that are being developed to take advantage of many new
- >> features and functionalities, and maintain compliance with the rapidly
- >> evolving STANDARDS for GUI development.
- >
- > I presume this translates into "Intrinsics-based toolkits are the Proper
- > Standard Toolkits For X"; i.e., OLIT is being promoted as the favored
- > toolkit for new applications because it's a bunch of widgets atop the Xt
- > Intrinsics.
-
- Perhaps more than just the "Xt is the de facto standard for GUI development"
- sense, I took it to be a reference to the fact that the OLIT API is being
- formally standardized (er, STANDARDIZED) by the IEEE. (Apart from P1295.2
- work, IEEE P1201.1 has gone on record as saying that their window-system-
- independent toolkit API only considers Xt-based toolkits of interest, so
- they're working with OLIT, not Xview or TNT.)
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