On the other hand, there's also us users who want to see IDEA be a great tool that meets our needs. There's nothing more depressing that having my standard xml editing break because of some pointless feature like xml declarations, inline dtd support, schema support, blahblah. I realise it's not feasible to have everything on a toggle, but I truly wish I could rip out all the support for idiotic user requests out of idea.jar. New features are all good and well, but when they impact those who do not use them, they get a big fat thumbs down from me. Of course, the response will be 'but..if you don't want it, don't use it!'...however, I have no CHOICE in the matter, when I open up an xml file now, IDEA will execute pointless codepaths that I do not need (checks for whether I'm in xml declaration, enable checks for correct syntax there, check if I have an inline dtd, check if it's xml schema, blahblah).
Note that I have no particular beef with xml, it's just an example. I remember a while back an email (or maybe misremember) from one of the intelliJ guys saying that the xml editing is not meant to be a full blown xml studio, but a lightweight convenience thing. It feels anything but lightweight right now, sadly. On 19/4/02 5:52 pm, "Rick Vestal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 19 April 2002 09:41 am, you wrote: >> You guys still haven't completely fixed the XML declaration issues. Do you >> do any testing at all or do you wait for us users to tell you? >> > > > Ranting.... > > Don't some of you get it? This is an *Early Release Program*. It has bugs. > It will have more bugs. It will regress. > > Speaking as someone who used to run an alpha program for a popular > application, it was really annoying to hear snide remarks like yours. It > made us want to hire testers in house instead of giving the *users* of the > product the chance to comment on usability and features. Do you want that > to happen with IDEA? > > --Rick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
