on 3/27/02 3:49 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It's IE's way of conforming to standards: since most prefs you want >to set in IE are really Internet Config prefs anyway, you can set hem >from either IE or Internet Control Panel (now System Prefs), and >they're the same prefs, instead of conflicting. this was the issue >(plus Autofill) that finally got me to drop Netscape: Netscape was >always overriding Internet prefs, but IE conformed. That's because >they're the same prefs.
But there are times you want two apps to use different prefs. Having them all trying to control the same preference file is a bad idea, IMO. A better solution would be to let the user choose whether IE should save to the master prefs or to use its own (and, vice versa, whether to use the master prefs file or its own). Figuring out a good interface for such functionality might be tricky, but it's certainly doable. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
