Jeremy knows, and I think he probably agreed with the results of Finlay Dobbie’s research back in 2000, which concluded that Softpress should rewrite Freeway using Cocoa (then called Rhapsody Yellow Box). Holy Alternate Realities, Batman! Can you imagine what would have happened if instead of the band-aid job that was Freeway 3.5 we had gotten the whole Magilla back then? Multiple undo, Unicode, a glossy interface that updates with the OS version without a rewrite…
The roots of that framework run all the way back to the mid-80s, when NeXT wrote their OS (which eventually became Mac OS X). In many ways, one of the best things Apple gained when NeXT “bought” them in the very late 90s was not Steve Jobs, but rather NeXTStep and the many many well-organized layers of that operating system and its frameworks. You don’t have to look very far in the Cocoa frameworks to find libraries prefixed with NS (for NeXTStep). Hell, the entire iTunes and App Store are (still) written in WebObjects, which was another NeXT technology…
Walter
On Sep 16, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Peter Tucker email@hidden wrote:
Hi W,
Yup, sorry it was a persistent jibe at the team here in Oxford ;~}}
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On 16 Sep 2017, at 04:28, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
Cocoa-based apps get multiple undo without any additional programming. It’s part of the framework.
Walter
On Sep 15, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Peter Tucker email@hidden wrote:
I would be extremely surprised if the one persistent request was missing : multiple undo!!!
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On 14 Sep 2017, at 20:30, Joe via freewaytalk email@hidden wrote:
Simple question: Will the new Freeway FINALLY have keyboard shortcuts for the tools?
• As you can tell by the rate of change around here, I am not interested in new and shiny
That again, sounds exactly like what SoftPress chose to do with Freeway for the last multiple decades - Aging System & Rate of Change.
Avoidance of change is a short-term strategy, which clearly did not work well as a choice for Softpress. Change and growth are painful but most times staying the course, yields the most pain.
On 16 Sep 2017, 6:19 pm, waltd wrote:
Can you imagine what would have happened if instead of the band-aid job that was Freeway 3.5
The perfect example of avoidance of change as a short-term strategy, look where it got Softpress. Failing to see the forrest from the trees, as they say.
• As you can tell by the rate of change around here, I am not
interested in new and shiny
That again, sounds exactly like what SoftPress chose to do with
Freeway for the last multiple decades - Aging System & Rate of Change.
Avoidance of change is a short-term strategy, which clearly did not
work well as a choice for Softpress. Change and growth are painful but
most times staying the course, yields the most pain.
On 16 Sep 2017, 6:19 pm, waltd wrote:
Can you imagine what would have happened if instead of the band-aid
job that was Freeway 3.5
The perfect example of avoidance of change as a short-term strategy,
look where it got Softpress. Failing to see the forrest from the
trees, as they say.
Soft press always suffered from being a very small company without the
money to hire enough people to do a re-write as well as maintain and
extend the product. Only extending it brought in money. High on ideas
and expertise; low on cash.
Too many potential users didn’t ‘get’ Freeway, and still don’t.
That’s what limited sales rather than the product itself. I’ve never
used it heavily as most of my pages are mainly php and I only use FW to
provide the containers. I only started using it because I used to
carshare with an early MD when we both worked for Linotype Paul. He only
lives a couple of villages away.