+1, I agree, I agree with Rick's statement too, but I would like to see a lot more toggles.. not only does this allow us to take out nonworking parts in development, but more importantly, allows us to customize our copy for our environment.. better speed.. etc.
On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 11:07 AM, Hani Suleiman wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
