From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476286965 References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <3728E60E.F789FD8@uq.net.au> <7h55i0$2ro3@drn.newsguy.com> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de 926360481 896 192.168.0.1 (10 May 1999 18:21:21 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 1999 18:21:21 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-10T18:21:21+00:00 List-Id: pmartin@mail.earthlink.net (Pascal F. Martin) writes: [GUI standards] > Let be serious: there will never be any standard to cover all environments. There once was a project called Fresco which aimed for a cross-plattform GUI toolkit (X11, Win32 and Mac were targeted) standardized by the X Consortium. Even an Ada binding was planned. Unfortunately, the project has died. I don't why they failed and if every such project is dommed to failure. :-/