Why isn links multiprocessor/multithreaded?
Because a singleprocessor and singlethreaded one is more efficient. • Why didn’t you use GTK or other toolkit for \links\ development? Because these toolkits take up too much space, are not portable, need not necessarily be installed on every computer (why should a user install a multimegabyte toolkit together with Links?), bring unnecessary program slowdown, annoy with thousands of windows and are incompetent. For example in GTK it’s impossible to dictate the gamma with which the dialogues should be displayed or it is impossible to scroll with middle mouse button in the file selection dialogue. • Why doesn’t \links\ have a button bar and a line for entering URL? Because these don’t have a practical use and just take up 1/5 of the screen, therefore they make a 15-inch monitor from a 17-inch one. This would be appreciated especially by users of low resolutions, for example 640$\times$480. URL entry line is utterly impractical because the user has to laboriously try to hit it with the mo
