On Nov 13, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Ryan Dary wrote:
I have heard this a few times now. With all due respect to the
author of Formatted Text Control, the concept of editable text is
probably one of the oldest technologies in computing. Why would we
encourage RB to incorporate the newest iteration of the same
thing? Why not simply encourage RB to actually wrap up the most
high-performance native solution for each target platform?
Because they vary wildly ?
If they are going to tout "Cross platform that really works" that
sets an expectation.
If you write a text editor on Windows you might expect it should work
similarly on Linux and OS X. (Try RTF on Windows and then Linux and
OS X)
That's certainly not the case today as you well know.
I think that disappoints people because it's not what they expect.
The one thing I hope to get out of the effort from True North is a
truly cross platform edit field that works about the same on each
platform and not the huge variation we have today.
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