On Thu, 22 May 2003 15:42:48 +0000 (UTC), Georg Wrede
<Georg_member@pathlink.com> wrote:


>What if we had an API for GUI work? Not directly included in the official D spec, but as an informal, yet de facto standard?
>
>Then anyone who ports or creates a GUI toolkit would try to follow this API -- within reason. What needs to differ from the API would then be well documented in the GUI programmers docs.

Python has a DB API that tries to do this... I personally find it annoying and use native database wrappers instead. I imagine it could be even more annoying for something as complex as a GUI abstraction.