Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> If you have any suggestions, let me know. I can post new ideas to the beta
> forum "wish list" area. BTW, the members only beta forums are very active.
Yes, four of them:
1. Update their website so their features list says something useful and
gives potential purchasers a reason to wait, in case they don't know a
beta tester they can rely on for correct information (thanks! ;)
2. Offer HS-Lite. Don't even send me the bloated code for the wysiwyg
crap and everything else--give us an option with the editing window, the
configurable tabs, project management, and the basic features--trash all
the MSIE integration, that internal browser, pop-up everything, floating
toolbars, etc. -- turning it off still leaves tons of code on my HD, and
still loads tons of code into RAM for checking whether options are on
and off -- save us $100 a copy and allow us to run it on a system that
can live within Win95 resource allocations and still share some space
with other programs. I'll master vi before I adopt something that
starts to get like dreamweaver.
2.33 At least write the code itself to live within Win95 limits. Bad
enough I have to pay for and use that--stupid to think I'm gonna
willingly fork out for NT to run their software effectively.
2.66 Modularize. Why allow us to turn things on and off and force the
bulk code on us? Why not adopt the plug-in approach, release the basic
program, and integrate code as needed for new features? Bet I could
reduce 20% of new code by eliminating MSIE4 integration I would never
use. Could drop another 10% eliminating pop-up palletes, unneeded tag
tabs and other pretty things. Can't say I've ever found their internal
browser of even nominal use (unless I want to see how something might
look in Mosaic 1.0 :p), that's probably good for 10% more.
3. In the alternative, give away HS 2.5 :) Better yet, open the
sourcecode to the old versions *grin*
4. And, as per my last message, port all of their products to Linux.
I'll gladly pay whatever the Wintel copy costs for a copy that runs on
my RH box. (which has no resource allocation problems, or, as a guy
reported on the DC users group list today, it can be out of RAM, the
swap space can be full, the /tmp space can be overflowing, the HD can be
full, bad programming can be spawning a hundred child processes as fast
as one can kill them, and the darn thing *still* serves 100K web pages
an hour :)
Oh, one more. Give a little more acknowledgement to Netscape, and make
it easier to acommodate NS all around. :)
Brett
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