At 10:54 -0700 07/29/2002, Thomas Higgins wrote:
>Unfortunately D7 was released long before WinXP and we had no way of
>forseeing the bug, sorry.
Like y'all couldn't forsee Java and thus make Lingo a lot more like
its eventual design when JT et. al. were creating it back in the last
century? C'mon! Complete lack of psychic ability is hardly an excuse!
This is a case where Macromedia is just not at fault, of course --
this is Bill's doing. It's his company, after all, that changes the
damned Windows API with every release. That's why I say there are
seven different versions of Windows -- 95, 98, 98se, NT, ME, 2K and
XP. They're too disparate to be called the same or even really
similar; and in some ways they don't even bear anything but a
superficial resemblance to each other.
To some extent these kinds of problems can be avoided by, for
instance, not creating code that relies too heavily on system hooks
(such as MCI calls or ActiveX). However when the pathname API is
changed -- a fundamental component to a filesystem! -- there's
nothing you can do to avoid the consequences.
The short answer to this problem is that the monkeys at Redmond
should have left that tier of the OS completely alone. It would be
like reversing tarffic lanes all over a nation all at once, without
telling anyone it had been done. Terrible and unforseen (by
marketers, but very predictable by anyone with functioning brains)
consequences would ensue.
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