[wx-discuss] wxWeb Port licensing and naming

[Julian Smart]

Hi John,

John Wilmes wrote:
> Additionally, I'm not sure what to name the port. wxWeb seems like a
> natural name, but I seem to remember at some point seeing another
> wxwidgets project called wxWeb that had absolutely nothing to do with
> what this port aims to achieve. I can't find that original project, but
> regardless, I would appreciate naming suggestions.
>   
Trying to think of a few alternatives, in case wxWeb can't be used:

wxRemote
wxBrowser
wxWWW

Like Vadim I also thought of reimplementing Wt as a contingency against 
licensing problems, but on the other hand (a) it could lead to bad 
feeling with the Wt people and (b) it might be better to simply write 
the back end in a wxWidgets-friendly way in the first place. If Wt 
became a widely adopted standard then it might make more sense.

I raised the possibilty of writing wxWeb as a wxUniversal port and I'd 
like to air it on this list to see how crazy an idea this is. The 
advantages, if it worked, would include:

- massive time saving from not having to rewrite the basic controls
- maximum compatibility with existing applications since by definition 
the port would be good enough to support custom controls and arbitrary 
graphics

The main downside would be potential inefficiency since there would need 
to be more net traffic to support the rendering and lower-level event 
handling. However, clever caching could minimize the hit, and also, 
basic controls could gradually be implemented 'natively'. Another 
downside would (presumably) be the requirement for a Java-enabled 
browser to implement the rendering. But that's possibly not too much of 
a constraint.

Personally I think this approach would lead to a more useful port - 
without the ability to support graphics and generic/custom controls, it 
would be quite limited. However it may be a non-starter for efficiency 
reasons, or perhaps because it wouldn't be sufficiently native.

Regards,

Julian





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