Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from...
by DonHopkins on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:49AM
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Another buggy painful non-open reimplementation of Motif, which arguably had the silliest name of any user interface toolkit in the entire universe, was Sun's and AT&T's (Unix System Laboratories) "MoOLIT", the Motif Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit, that let you switch back and forth between those two different competing looks and feels (both of which sucked in their own ways), and which was based on "OLIT", then Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit, which itself was based on the horrible X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt), which was the root of all evil.
>MoOLIT (Motif OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit) is a graphical user interface library and application programming interface (API) created by Unix System Laboratories in an attempt to create a bridge between the two competing look-and-feels for Unix workstations at the time: OPEN LOOK and OSF Motif.
>The library provided common GUI features such as boxes, menus, lists, and buttons, but allowed users to choose which look and feel they wanted at runtime. It was a short-lived project, as the industry was moving towards Motif as the de facto GUI standard, a trend culminating in the COSE initiative in 1993.
Of course if you just wanted a laugh at the name, you could also use the X Anathema Widgets (Xaw) toolkit, but I think MoOLIT was funnier. I cracked up every time I saw some Sun marketing droid in a tie seriously talking about it.
>In a talk for USENIX, X pioneer Jim Gettys remarked that although Athena widgets were "ugly", they were often used in the period of X history that he describes as the "GUI wars", as a safe alternative to the competing Motif and Open Look toolkits.
>MoOLIT (Motif OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit) is a graphical user interface library and application programming interface (API) created by Unix System Laboratories in an attempt to create a bridge between the two competing look-and-feels for Unix workstations at the time: OPEN LOOK and OSF Motif.
>The library provided common GUI features such as boxes, menus, lists, and buttons, but allowed users to choose which look and feel they wanted at runtime. It was a short-lived project, as the industry was moving towards Motif as the de facto GUI standard, a trend culminating in the COSE initiative in 1993.
Of course if you just wanted a laugh at the name, you could also use the X Anathema Widgets (Xaw) toolkit, but I think MoOLIT was funnier. I cracked up every time I saw some Sun marketing droid in a tie seriously talking about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoOLIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEN_LOOK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Toolkit_Intrinsics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets
>In a talk for USENIX, X pioneer Jim Gettys remarked that although Athena widgets were "ugly", they were often used in the period of X history that he describes as the "GUI wars", as a safe alternative to the competing Motif and Open Look toolkits.