Re: Disabling_Expose_for_some_windows,_some_day?
Re: Disabling_Expose_for_some_windows,_some_day?
- Subject: Re: Disabling_Expose_for_some_windows,_some_day?
- From: Peter Jaros <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:37:12 -0500
On Jan 29, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Karl Goiser wrote:
I agree that there are issues with every developer thinking their
application special and wanting their applications' windows omitted
from consideration. On the other hand, we have seen in this
discussion that several applications could be validly omitted.
This is a common paradigm in APIs that I just don't understand. If
people keep their windows from going away when they ought to, the
result is a poor program that people don't want to use. Apple (or
anyone else) needn't keep us from something just becuase 90% of the
time it's inappropriate. We can figure out what's in the 10%. If the
developer fails, the user will figure it out.
(I'm not blaming Apple on this one: this is probably more of an
unimplemented feature than an executive decision of censorship. I mean
this all more generally. Consider the soapbox firmly under my feet.)
A good language/API ought not protect developers from bad programming
practices, since many are good in a few cases. A good language/API
ought only not to encourage such practices by its nature.
*cough*visualbasic*cough*
Peter
*cough*
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