[Info-vax] OpenVMS graphics - once more

[David Froble]

terry+googleblog at tmk.com wrote:
> 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)

Well, we all know that I don't get out much, but, it's my impression there are 
not decent graphics on VMS.  HW and Software.  Now, it's also my impression that 
a browser is going to expect graphics.

So, the first step isn't any part of a browser, it's the infrastructure that a 
browser will expect.

I'd much rather have a good TCP/IP, and SSL, and IPSEC, and ....