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by **Brian Wheel** » Thu, 16 Oct 1997 04:00:00

Quote:> I am very curious about the development tools (language, framework etc.)
> Netscape used to develop Linux Communicator. It seems that they have
> been able to create a graphics intensive, cross platform application - a
> difficult endeavor indeed.

> Does anyone know how they achieved it, was Navigator developed in Java
> or did they use C/C++ and a platform independent screen library for the
> GUI?

My guess is C++ considering the DEC unix version requires this library.
Its not *that* hard to write a cross platform graphics app: you just need to
write an abstraction library or use a lot of ifdefs.

Brian Wheeler

by **Stephen Birc** » Thu, 16 Oct 1997 04:00:00

I am very curious about the development tools (language, framework etc.)
Netscape used to develop Linux Communicator. It seems that they have
been able to create a graphics intensive, cross platform application - a
difficult endeavor indeed.

Does anyone know how they achieved it, was Navigator developed in Java
or did they use C/C++ and a platform independent screen library for the
GUI?

by **Evan L. Car** » Fri, 17 Oct 1997 04:00:00

>> I am very curious about the development tools (language, framework etc.)
>> Netscape used to develop Linux Communicator. It seems that they have
>> been able to create a graphics intensive, cross platform application - a
>> difficult endeavor indeed.

>> Does anyone know how they achieved it, was Navigator developed in Java
>> or did they use C/C++ and a platform independent screen library for the
>> GUI?

My understanding from those I've talked to who had friends in the inside is
that they used C++ with RogueWave in order to achive a rock solid code
line as well as a means for porting among the various platforms.

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by **Christopher B. Brow** » Sun, 19 Oct 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>My understanding from those I've talked to who had friends in the inside is
>that they used C++ with RogueWave in order to achive a rock solid code
>line as well as a means for porting among the various platforms.

"In order to achieve a rock solid code line" sounds like a clear sort
of "marketing droid" line.

"We used RogueWave so that our code would be more solid" (which is
entirely independent of whether or not the Netscapers have a clue
of how to write C++ code).

That being said, the fact that Rogue has been writing C++ libraries
for a while probably *does* mean that they have some decent product,
which would be helpful to the coders at Netscape.
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