tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17901712.post113676148148002714..comments2023-10-26T02:24:08.639-07:00Comments on Stuff Leo has Seen Lately: Display PostScriptLeohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03720998751599078547noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17901712.post-1137568110426537622006-01-17T23:08:00.000-08:002006-01-17T23:08:00.000-08:00interesting, so NeWS is actually part of Sun X11.....interesting, so NeWS is actually part of Sun X11.. very much antithetical to what I'd like to see. One thing I really like about OSX is that my native apps are native, and X11 is a cross-platform, networked window server, as it was designed. If I don't need that, I don't have to buy into it for basic GUI.Justin Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14999277125838521134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17901712.post-1136826220685946132006-01-09T09:03:00.000-08:002006-01-09T09:03:00.000-08:00Yeah, finding NeWS information is pretty hard now....Yeah, finding NeWS information is pretty hard now. I found one of Don Hopkins' old posts at http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/64 where he summarizes some of the key differences between NeWS and DPS (I agree with his description of the differences and disagree about which one is the more desirable ;-).Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03720998751599078547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17901712.post-1136812722596365762006-01-09T05:18:00.000-08:002006-01-09T05:18:00.000-08:00Interesting stuff, Leo - thanks for taking the tim...Interesting stuff, Leo - thanks for taking the time :)<BR/><BR/>It does seem logical that having a language interpreter as an integral part of the graphics system could be a tad heavy, and I remember reading at some point about how PS was designed to be a language / format and also a directly accessible API.<BR/><BR/>I was reminded, when reading the names of he new operations, that the concept of 'windows' is also getting boring to me lately. I wonder if one could define, based on vectors, a 2d zone and even allow for some inter-app negotiation of screenspace, esp with alpha. It's always sort of bugged me that everything is a rectangle, and people sometimes push that limit in a singular app to create a cool interface - my current favorite on the mac being <A HREF="http://www.iconfactory.com/ip_home.asp" REL="nofollow">iPulse</A>. You can style the window, hide portions of it, etc.. - but it's always a rectangular window. At the risk of sounding reckless, I'm thinking with a gig or so of ram I can maybe afford to store a couple of extra coordinates per ui context, and that ps could help make such a thing either easier or more robust in implementation. :)<BR/><BR/>I guess I'm not quite familiar with the internals of x11 -- or OpenGL, for that matter -- enough to understand how exactly they use a stream of async calls, but it sounds like a powerful concept. In fact, now that I think of it, I wonder how this all ties into OpenGL, since, afaik, that is how the interface is ultimately drawn on OSX.<BR/><BR/>Can you point at any info on Sun NeWS server, or is this too old to be on the web? It's definitely not an easy google search to sift through.. ;dJustin Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14999277125838521134noreply@blogger.com