> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:06:31 +0100 (BST)
> From: robert.d.campbell{([at]})nowhere.xy> Subject: Domains - the Black Art of BlackBox ?
> To: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Priority: normal
hmm, although I also have problems understanding domains
completely, I'll try to answer, but ask others to comment or correct
i, if I'm wrong.
> Is a Domain a clutch - in incomprehensible irritant to most of us most of the
> time?
I think domains are strongly linked to compound
documents and their structure (internal/ecternal ?).
I'm not shure if domains are also linked to "active" contents,
but most of them are unthinkable without compound documents.
>
> I suspect that Domains are a mechanism (a good one, a bad one, who knows?)
> for solving some problem, and while I fail to understand the problem I can
> never really understand how to use Domains.
the joining (the new concept introduced with 1.4) of domains has something to
do with messages travelling from the OS down a hierarchy (probably nested) of
components in a compound document.
> After all my previous computer
> (an Atari ST actually) didn't have Domains and it worked fine (Modula 2
> actually).
>
hmm, but it did not have compound documents, or did it ?
regards
Received on Tue Sep 18 2001 - 12:13:11 UTC