[TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?

[Rich Morin]

Yes and no.  I actually had JavaScript (which I _knew_ that Brendan Eich wrote; sigh) in mind.   JavaScript, like NeWS, handles a wide range of display and interaction issues.  Of course, it sits on top of HTTP, but that's just a detail (:-).

-r


> On Jan 24, 2021, at 13:10, Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> 
>> Too bad.  X won (at least in Unixish systems) and, as Rob Pike put it:  Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.  Curiously, JavaScript (another Gosling effort) is in some ways the modern version of NeWS...
>> 
>> 
> You mean Java.   JavaScript is a different language that Brendan Eich at Netscape wrote for their browser.