containing plasmoid crashes

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 26 July 2009, David Baron wrote:
> A similar problem has seemingly been solved, by .... Google. Since google's
> browser is opensource, one might take a look.

chrome solves a completely different problem. it displays a completely 
_different_ canvas (in this case, an html one) in each tab.

we are showing a single canvas with items in it.

the semi-equivalent in chrome would be to make each html element in the page 
it's own process and then have them all paint to the same canvas. it's still 
only semi-equivalent because, while there is javascript interaction, the html-
paint-to-canvas mechanism is a lot less complex than what QGraphicsView 
offers.

now, if you think that it's still a sane idea, go map out on paper all the 
details including data synchronization and managing painting from multiple 
process, remembering that the desktop is supposed to be very responsive and 
take as little cpu as possible.

the real solution is to use scripting languages and make sure the c++ plugins 
are absolutely solid.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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