>For me an obvious addition would be the Apple WebKit, to use Safari- >rendering of HTML-mails. On the other hand, that would mean going Cocoa, >I guess, and that would be parting from OS 8-9.
My vote is to do just that: Go Cocoa, and forget development for OS 8-9. CTM can leave those versions around for people who want them, but they should not invest any more resources into them. I know this will create debate here, but PM is the only app I use that still even bothers to develop for those creaky old systems. I'd much rather see Jerome & Co. use their time adding other, oft-requested features to the program. OS X is brilliant, beautiful, and stable as granite (way more stable than any previous Mac OS, and I've been using Macs intensely for 15 years. I sure don't miss the days when OS 9 would freeze once a day or so on me. I've had only two reset-requiring system freezes in two *years* of OS X use). What's more, every major application worth using is running in OS X now, and I think it's safe to say that no software developers are working on any all-new packages that will run in those old systems. The only reasons for sticking with OS 9 or earlier at this point are inertia, psychological resistance to change, or unwillingness to invest even a modest sum of money into a tool that is easily, from my perspective, by far the most important possession I own, both at work and at home. Far more important than my car, that's for sure, but OS X and few software upgrades costs way less getting my brakes replaced, or a few tanks of gas! What's that? You're still using an old Mac that won't even run OS X? Er, um...no comment. --- Scott T. Hards President HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
