On Oct 7, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: > Who is "they?" The software makers? Are you kidding? Have you ever > developed a cross-platform product like Photoshop or XPress? Do you > know all the myriad of issues that go in making such a product? > Obviously I do, so I'm obviously going to have a lot of strong > opinions on the subject.
Those specifically, no, but I have been involved in developing office software products that are cross platform, as well as other image editing products and HTML editors that are cross platform (very well known ones). So, I am familiar with the level of effort it takes. When Adobe took a year after the most recent release of OS X to ship a native version of Photoshop, that was an indicator that they weren't doing as well as they could have, or should have. Other more complex video editing products were ready, but not Photoshop. The story from Adobe was that there was so much code in the code base to PS that it couldn't be done in XCode. That should indicate an issue with the development model - too many features! > So, if you want to make the browser makers and operating system > makers *force* to comply to make cross-browser and cross-platform > application development more of a reality without that major > compromise, and in doing so *force* MS, Apple, Netscape and the > Firefox team to make accessibility an integral part of their > technology rather than a tacked on afterthought, then something > might actually get done with regard to all this kubuki as it > pertains to giving the disabled a real means to interact with > technology. Apple has built accessibility into their OS. While it might not be Jaws, OS X has native accessibility features built into the OS and has for years. Just look under the system preferences panel. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---------------------------------- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://toddwarfel.com ---------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
