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Subject: Re: GWindows and David Botton
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>      Although CLAW is the only package that is able to hide most of
>Windows' complexity and ugliness, continued development of it for the
>Windows GUI is a poor long-term bet.  One of the major advantages of CLAW is
>that it is a thick binding.  Since Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) XML
>Graphics for the Web (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/) and XForms
>(http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/) provide the infrastructure for a GUI, why
  Claw has a lot besides a Windows GUI.  Registry, clipboard, sockets, event
handling, and real-time sound and graphics, for instance, come to mind.