Re: [OT] Re: Oh lord, here we go again
Re: [OT] Re: Oh lord, here we go again
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Oh lord, here we go again
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:13:33 +0000
John C. Welch wrote:
> >> I've decided the MS Windows team is genetically incapable of an original
> >> thought.
> >
> > Your point? There's nothing original in the idea of controlling applications
> > by manipulating GUI elements programmatically;
>
>That wasn't my point. The point was, once again, MS is late to the party,
>but will quickly act like they threw it.
I'm trying to care, but somehow I can't.:/ Show me a press release that doesn't talk like it's the cure for cancer. (Y'ever read what Apple marketing comes up with?:) Anyone with an ounce of sense knows it's all just hot air. The fanboy weenies will forever repeat it as if gospel truth. And 99% of the world will not care less anyway. :p
>Considering MS's track record on cross platform
RTF? TextEdit seems to like it okay. :)
Yeah, MS have a bad habit of using 'standards' as a means to control, but who doesn't? Remember the earlier days of Firewire how Apple got the brilliant idea to start demanding significant licensing fees from manufacturers for the privilege of adopting it? Markets aren't completely stupid.
>"This is designed to completely suck and be miserable on anything but
>Windows, so that once you've killed yourself trying to make it work outside
>of windows, you'll have to finish the project on Windows to get any work
>done"
I assume what they're offering is API specs, protocols, documentation, etc. If they suck, who is going to bother implementing them? I actually doubt MS would want to play silly mind games on this occasion: they'd have little to gain from it and the bad PR would be highly embarrassing ("MS Hates Cripples!!!!"). Like I say, the biggest problem'll be over who has control over the standard, because OSS folks (Linux) will almost certainly reject any non-open standard, and Apple might not consider it worth the effort when they already have perfectly good established APIs of their own.
>However, it's reasonable to assume that folks on this list are going to hear about the effort, so early information is always good, forewarned, forearmed, etc.
Not sure there's that many folks developing accessibility-related software on this list. And GUI Scripting is hardly relevant, since it's already well abstracted away from the system APIs. Perhaps Accessibility-dev would be more appropriate? (http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-dev)
Back t'grind...
has
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