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Pascal Haakmat wrote:

 
> Yeah yeah I hear this all the time - show me HOW a process spawned by a
> blue box task is going to 'restart it's UI portion' without an extensive
> coding effort on the part of the programmer. And how often is it not the
> case that UI and task are intricately interwoven? How often does it not
> happen that the UI is actually inherent to the task (I'm thinking of
> display-engines like Netscape's & Xpress')? 
> I thought all the PMT bullshit was to make the programmer's life easier. 
> On the Mac, all the dull stuff comes down on the programmer. But
> programmers are less and less inclined to invest a whole lot of effort
> (mainly education & information gathering) into having something work
> the 'right' way, meaning consistency across computer configurations and
> user environments. 
> This probably accounts for the rapidly deteriorating quality of
> Macintosh programs (how many of you support the 'Home' & 'End' keys in
> their programs??). 
> People are just not going to do it. The BB will crash and lots of PMT
> spawned processes will not anticipate it. As things stand, anything
> beyond that is pure speculation.

I think all this will be fixed and taken care of in something called 
'Gershwin' (if my memory isn't totally absend).

Best regards,

m a r t i n  n

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