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CobraBoy! (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:22:42 -0800


http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/Screenshots/ThinkYellow.gif

> It's a screenshot of an alpha of OmniWeb 3.0 running on Windows NT. This
>port was done in a day,
> after our frameworks were ported.
>
> What can we say? Yellow Box just works. As soon as we'd ported, the
>loadable bundles, frameworks,
> drag and drop, menus, inspector panels, everything just worked. The
>menus haven't been redone to be
> NT-style (so they still have a "Quit" at the top level), but they still
>work. This is not just wussy demo
> app -- OmniWeb starts up twelve threads to do the processing stages of
>the pipelines it builds to the
> screen, with each network fetch and rendering task using a different
>thread so the main thread is never
> blocked. It uses the full NSText system, and in fact we've been told it
>already magically works with
> Japanese EUC and Shift-JIS pages (we didn't have to do any extra work to
>support them, since the
> NSText system uses Unicode).
>
> Mind you, we haven't completely tested the app (since we just got it
>working tonight), and we aren't
> committing to releasing anything under NT or 95, but we think this is a
>pretty cool demonstration that
> you can use the most advanced development environment in the world and
>still deploy on the least
> advanced deployment environment.

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but now if Apple tanks it, it also tanks NeXT,
and we're going to do everything in our power
to make sure that doesn't happen. ... anonymous NeXT employee

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