And that, is a good idea! Michael D. Lawler wrote: > Speculation is such an interesting thing. We never said we were going > to stop using MSAA. We are doing a rewrite because browse mode is over > 10 years old and when it was created we didn't consider the need for > multiple simultaneous buffers. The issues with AJAX and ARIA didn't > exist. WE scripting which requires a lot more from browse mode didn't > exist. Browse mode was created when we supported 9X which made it more > complex code wise than it needed to be. From our perspective there is > only one browse mode related problem that is a show stopper and that > is a lockup where WE hangs under certain timing conditions when browse > mode has been told to turn off and then immediately turn back on. We, > with the new lockup code that I said we would work on post 7.0, are > currently working to understand this issue enough to hopefully resolve > it. The other issues, honestly, are anoyances that don't prevent > people from functioning with browse mode and we are not just going to > just knee jerk react and rush out something to silence people on this > list. We are going to rework our browse mode code base and do it > correctly which is a much better long term strategy. > > > > At 11:02 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: >> I understand the below: >> The only problem I have it back when browse mode was developed we >> were told that msaa was great. >> Other screen reader companies did there own proprietary stuff for >> this and gw was working with microsoft with msaa to do it right. >> Browse mode took a while etc. >> It's never worked correctly ... why the complete rewrite? >> When will this be done? >> I think most of us use the applications taht use browse mode the most >> of all apps. >> We need to truly get this fixed as soon as we can and certainly >> beofre we start adding more features. >> Thanks so listening to my views. >> Sam Bushman >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Michael D. Lawler >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:55 AM >> Subject: Re: WE 7 and browse mode >> >> We only stated that browse mode was going to be redone post 7.0. >> This is a major project and won't be released in any service pack >> or minor update. >> >> >> >> At 09:11 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: >>> Did I understand it correctly from the GW staff that they >>> would be coming out with a WE 7 service pack soon after the >>> release of WE 7 which would fix the browse mode problems >>> that seemed to get worse with the new release? >>> >>> >>> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the >>> original >>> >>> sender only. 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