Re: Pathworks Macintosh, OS-X & Printing

From: Craig A. Berry (craigberry_at_mac.com.spamfooler)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:05:37 -0600

In article <220120041809327934%paul.anderson@hp.com>,
 Paul Anderson <paul.anderson@hp.com> wrote:

> Now that I think of it, is Rendezvous used for both discovery and
> printing? I was thinking of the discovery part, where OpenVMS would
> advertise printer services so they could be seen by Rendezvous-aware
> clients (like Macs, for example).
>
> But we'd have to implement Rendezvous for printing, too. I doubt there
> would be enough call for Rendezvous to justify the work.

I don't know either, but there's lots of info at

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/index.html

They offer implementation source code for about five different OS's, so
you wouldn't be starting from scratch.

> Is Safari part of the open source provided by Apple? I haven't heard
> of any ports of Safari to other operating systems. I wonder if it
> would be as great a browser if ported elsewhere.

Safari is based on the KHTML rendering engine from the Gnome project.
They've made their own enhancements and released them as open source:

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/index.html

But the UI is, as I understand it, written from scratch in Cocoa, the
native GUI services for Mac OS X. Assuming you could get Apple to part
with the source code (unlikely), you'd have to give a few talented
graphics programmers a year or two to emulate all those services before
you could reasonably port an application based on them.

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