Re: Faster lisp engine
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 03:08:13PM +0900, P. E. Jareth Hein wrote:
I'm interested in messing around with redisplay, and have been
picking
at it, but do not have the time free to make any commitments as to
when things happen... I have a couple of glyph-related patches that
I'll post when we've got 21.0 to bed, and then will add my dialogs to
lwlib, but after that I'd like to work on perhaps implementing Joel
Peterson's ideas. Anyone else interested in the same area, or have
more ideas on what needs doing there? (I do want to get pixel-level
scrolling and proper scroll-bar behavior in there as well...)
A simple remark: I think you should try to be able to show anything
that can be described using html4/css2 (or xml/css2), and if possible
without going to lisp unless absolutly necessary (lazy shot ?) for a
redraw or (more difficult) a window size change. I do not imply that
the syntax of the properties/extents/whatever used to inform the
redisplay the required layout should have anything to do with xml or
css, only that it is the level of support we are probably going to
need for the next years.
OG.