Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 10:34:23 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote:

> Markus Redeker wrote:
>> On 28 Jul 2006 16:37, Hussein Shafie wrote:
>>> The successor of XMLmind XML Editor, if it exists one day, will be
>>> *vastly* different from current editor. (That's why the project has
>>> been postponed for one year or more: we are not sure that people are 
>>> ready to accept the idea of giving up *files*, at least for certain 
>>> tasks.)
>> 
>> This sounds interesting. What do you have in mind?
>
> This means that if our future product requires the users to radically
> change their working habits, it is likely to be rejected by them.

OTOH the most important reasons why I prefer XXE over the other
WYSIWYM XML editors I have tried so far is exactly that it breaks the
tradition, i.e. it doesn't try to emulate a usual word processor so
hard. At least I have found that it tries to think on a more XML-ish
way. Surely it is not a strategy for attracting the mass (who has
grown up on MS Word and like)... but, if XXE will be consistently bold
enough to break traditions for the sake of technical superiority, then
on the long run it can grow a technical advantage over the more
cautious competition that is big enough to convenience the people who
don't like changes otherwise. Just, it has to be communicated to the
users properly.

> (Yes, I know, I'm not answering your question ;-) ).

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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