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Re: Java is not on its death-bed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim frost)
Tue Aug 29 12:47:00 1995
To: weilerj@std.teradyne.com (Jason Weiler)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 1995 17:21:08 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 09:36:49 -0400
From: jim frost <jimf@world.std.com>
|3) it would much more environmentally conscious. It may still hog colors,
| but has anyone tried to run xpaint while Netscape is runninng.
| I still can't figure out why those two can't get along. Just a
| hunch, but I bet Netscape is the trouble maker.
X11 color management is awful, and imaging requires a *lot* of colors
to do a good job. There are almost always colormap interaction
problems with X11 imaging programs (I know, I wrote xloadimage and
spent obscene amounts of time dealing with this topic).
In short, that's one problem that's hard to blame on NetScape -- it's
really an X11 problem. There are several tunables that make things
more friendly but they degrade image quality.
Then again I haven't tried to figure out what NetScape does for
colormap management. If they do something simple like allocate a
block of colors private and use a color cube then there's a really
legitimate gripe....
jim frost
jimf@world.std.com
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