On May 26, 2013 3:08 PM, "Random832" <random832_AT_fastmail.us> wrote:
> Why is the requirement that it conform to your IPC protocol* less onerous
than requiring it to conform to a particular in-process API that would make
it a "plug-in"?
May it owe to the fact that this particular IPC protocol is *the* protocol
used for nearly all IPC in the system?
> *which has to handle navigation on both ends, A] what happens when you
click a link in your viewer and B] what happens to your viewer when the
user navigates away from it.
Try lynx and see.
> Also, is the browser required to download the whole file before opening
the viewer, or can for example a PDF viewer display the first page before
the last page is downloaded?
How does this problem differ from downloading a file from URI in IRC chat
or from mail? Why should it be solved differently in browser then?
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Received on Sun May 26 2013 - 15:21:04 CEST