Re: Fairfax County Previewing Web Site Redesign
Posted by:
nLLvt
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Date: February 27, 2017 04:04PM
a great number of sites have totally separate web sites - possibly served by different servers
the form factors are simply not alike, the "PC html 666" is a bad idea from the start and doesn't scale
Motif runing on X windows (from 1980x to present) has automatic re-layout of forms (run-time, no coding required).
Oddly, the power that be decided that HTML should be an inner program that fakes a desktop GUI (but not all of it), which is fakely supported by the web browser (but in a variety of ways), which is then ... SHOW ON A DESKTOP that is already more capable. GENIOUS !!!
X window (since 1982) (and then later PDF on X windows, and then with Motif) did more that html + webrowser from the start.
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it's a desktop emulated by an emulator on a desktop on a desktop, on most systems today
and you wonder why it's 8 gigabytes to install and slower than in the 1980's?
that's fucking why