[Info-vax] OpenVMS graphics - once more

[terry+googleblog at tmk.com]

On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 4:37:13 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> But, the browsers available, for free, run on Linux.  This is through no effort, 
> as far as I know, of those supporting Linux.  Could be wrong.

That would seem to be the case. And somehow I doubt Microsoft is funding development of the Firefox version for Windows.

This is a difficult situation to address. There seem to be 5 possibilities:

1) Do nothing (no browser on VMS)
2) Hope that VMS becomes popular enough that a browser maker will handle the VMS port at no charge (unlikely)
3) Write an emulation layer for something (Windows, Linux, etc.) that is "good enough" to run a browser intended for that platform on VMS (expensive, doesn't necessarily address plugins)
4) Pay a browser maker to maintain a VMS version of that browser (expensive, doesn't address plugins)
5) Maintain a local port / build of a browser (expensive, doesn't address plugins, plus adds delay after the "reference" version(s) of the browser are released)