On 3/27/02 8:11 PM, "Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > Set the usual prefs from Internet Prefs or IE; set your freaky prefs that pertain only to your other browser (how many different browsers using different prefs do you need?) in the other browser. This sounds pretty farfetched, anyway. IE gives the normal user an easy way to set all the prefs he/she expects to find in one place, instead of doing some in Internet, some in IE, and honors prefs set in Internet, which is honest, decent and consistent, I think it's a good system. -- Paul Berkowitz -- 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/>
