- From: help kl <klhelp@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:17:26 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-amaya-dev@w3.org
> Hello Amaya team and users, > > I've only recently started checking on the product > and > the various directions it is taking. First off, I'd > like to thank the Amaya team for putting together > such > a potentially useful tool! > > I'm trying to decide whether this would be a > reasonable code base to use for an Internet-based > collaboration tool I am developing. Although not a > fan > of anything from MS, I will be constrained to > working > on the Windows-NT development version, since my > potential users are all strongly wedded to this > platform. > > So the questions are as follows. Please forgive me > if > these are repeats from earlier postings. I have > attempted to go thru all the user-group discussions > (1999-2000) before writing this: > > 1: Various people have had problems with the > Windows-NT build over the past several months. Can I > assume that the version 4.1 source release (sometime > in Nov-2000) has corrected these problems or not? Is > there anything I need to do in-addition to whatever > is > listed on the > "Windows compiling section" page? > > 2: What (if any) are the inherent limitations of the > Windows-NT release, compared with a Unix version? I > think I read somewhere that the Thot implementation > on > NT is limited. Can someone tell me the implications > of > this, please? > > 3: I understand and appreciate the "mostly > authoring, > a bit of browsing" philosophy that guides the > development team. Does this mean that certain > features > (html forms, java applet support, javascript > support) > will **never** be implemented, or that it will just > take a lot longer? > > 4: Is the plugin architecture unavailable on NT? If > so, how do you suggest adding additional data > (mime-types). Could I at least have a helper > application handle my special data types? > > 5: I understand there's going be another release > sometime in December. Will this handle some/any of > the > existing Windows-NT shortcomings? > > Regards > > KL __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
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