D could catch this wave: web assembly

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 17:00:43 +0000, Kagamin wrote:

> Well, it's just windows api was simple enough to be usable directly,
> while X11 didn't fly that way and didn't receive development since
> everybody used toolkits and all features were implemented in toolkits,
> which in the end used X11 as plain canvas rather than windowing system.

nope, X is a window system. it's windows which is *not* window system, 
but window system with very simplistic toolkit bolted on top of it. that 
was not a bad idea considering the hardware windows aimed, but now it's a 
legacy crap, and almost anyone is hacking around it.


> Knowing minimal size won't help you if the amount of information simply
> doesn't fit.

somehow it still works for me.

> Dialogs can be scrolled, but master-detail views can't:
> master and detail views already reserve scrolling for themselves, so it
> can't be reused for the entire window, well, at least it won't work
> naturally.

i believe that we should stop here, as we are clearly talking about 
different things. i can't even imagine why widget may want to "reserve 
scrolling for itself" and what that means. and i can't see why any part 
of window can't be scrolled, especially when you have a clear widget 
hierarchy, and detail views living in their own containers.
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