On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
> Er, original point? Frank started this conversation. (I feel like I'm in
> the wrong shoes.)
And I apologize. :)
> It's not just memo pad -- enhancing it would be trivial (changing one byte
> in the memopad prc should be sufficient). But your memos would get clipped
> off by the older desktop software, which would break an extremely
> long-standing record of backwards compatibility.
Would that really be a problem if you only enhance the memo pad on
new devices that ship with a new enhanced version of the desktop software?
Perhaps it is a bad precedent but I think the Memo Pad is one of
those critical pieces of software that reflects on the platform since
nearly every user will run it at some time or other and many of those
users will rely on it. Not fixing a limitation that seems (in my
experience) to adversely affect so many people is just a Bad Thing.
--frank
