In fact, compared to these features, things like tables and styles are not that difficult. That is why we are the only ones able to offer these features now when other Cocoa word processors cannot. We are making the investment to get the hard things out of the way up front so we can add new features regularly and deliver them quickly from here on out. I think you will find that this is going to put Nisus and all of our users way our front in a year or so compared to other offerings on the Mac.
So, that's just a little insight into why we are adding features they way we are. I hope it helps to clear up any puzzlement. :-)
-Charles
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 06:56 PM, Robert B. Waltz wrote:
On 5/28/03, Rick Davis wrote:
[ ... ]
The marketing decisions of software developers often puzzle me.
There is nothing puzzling about this at all. If you want to build a nice house, you start by building a firm foundation. That's what we are doing now -- helping firm up the foundation. There's no sense adding more features while there are still bugs. Once we all help get this debugged and version 1.0 is out the door, the other stuff can be added.
Also, feature implementation is often based on a sort of cost-benefit analysis. If a feature is easy to add, it goes in even if it's not helpful to most people. Hard features may not go in even if they are popular (e.g. Nisus never really produced a working Quark filter because, while highly beneficial, it was a lot of work).
Chances are, at this point, the Nisus people are still learning what they can and can't do in Cocoa with NEx. So we're getting mostly "easy" (low-benefit) features.
-- Bob Waltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The one thing we learn from history -- is that no one ever learns from history."
--------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/
To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/
To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
