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To: Rar who wrote (1294)	3/12/1999 3:50:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2617

I agree... bandwidth usage is a big drawback of the X protocol. You can use a compressing proxy between machines, but it doesn't help _that_ much. The only way to really lessen the bandwidth load is to have the machines on each end of a connection have a common language for generic widgets. Instead of pushing all the pixels that show a combo-box across the network, the protocol would push a message like "Combobox:<selection1><selection2><selection3>". The client would then have the smarts to interpret this and draw the combo box using whichever toolkit it had installed. This is how ICA, RDP, etc work. It is interesting that a logical conclusion of going in this direction is an XML/HTML type rendering language.