Resent-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 11:50:48 -0500
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 11:49:52 -0500
From: "Michael D. McCool" <mmccool@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: Local Files with Netscape 2.0b3
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Re: Local files with netscape2.0b3

Actually, the problem I had with this was giving demos.   You unplug the
machine from the network to give a presentation, and everything breaks,
even if all the classes are local.  Very, very annoying.   

You're better off running a web server locally under Linux, or Win95,
if you can figure out the latter.   BTW, anyone have a Win95 filesystem
driver?  The MS-DOS one trashes the Win95 filesystem when it fsck's...
as I discovered one day to my endless amusement.  Aren't computers fun!

Re: other fun problems wrt Linux and Win95

Oh, yeah, the AWT widgets under Win95 (which I'm also running on the same
machine) are incompatible with the Linux/Motif versions.   Scrollbars,
for one thing, don't work properly... they aren't initialized right.
So don't develop on one O/S and expect things to work on another.

I'm not convinced building the AWT as an "adaptor" is the right approach.
There will always be inconsistencies between the way widgets work on
different platforms, and of course the "least-common-denominator" problem.
I'd be nice if the AWT had a "mode" that would let it act like Tk, i.e.
enforce a consistent look and feel on all platforms, using only the
basic ability to draw to windows.   Then at least you could do some 
"graphic design" and not be back where you started wrt portability.

BTW I'm building a "metamedia" system with Java: 
	http://www.meta.cgl.uwaterloo.ca

Well, this is all a little off-topic.  Back to your regularly scheduled 
Linux hacking...

Michael McCool.