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by mcculley 3634 days ago
If you're not remoting, it's not difficult to work at a high level. The API presented to the application is easy to control. The interesting thing about NeWS was that a high level event could be defined by the application. The protocol needn't be designed to accommodate it a priori. The example mentioned sliders, not scrollbars. The display server wouldn't even know what a slider was. It would have been defined by the application.