Re: Help!: Update Frame for Mac OSX; We Need Your Votes!

[Mark Barratt <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cas Tuyn wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> The first range of Unicode characters are the same as the ASCII
> range, so if Hedley asks for fast subset-of-XML support in say
> FM 6.5 or FM 7, that version could indeed only support ASCII,
> and leave full Unicode support for the full XML version (FM8?).
> 
> Although I too stress the need for full XML and full Unicode, at
> this time I'd rather have a subset of both supported now and the
> rest later, than a perfect full version in two years.
> 

Yes, I knew that already. I was just being inflammatory. And I think if
people say that an application supports XML they should mean that it
conforms to XML 1.0. 

> I'm already forced to use Epic over the next half year to setup
> my XML publishing project. Once we go live, Adobe/FM has to
> support XML or we end FM in ASML after 11 years of loving it.

I'm sure that many of us here are in the same boat. I actually have lots
of sympathy for Adobe here - Lee has made some good points. But in the
end they are about prioritising available development resources as best
he can, hoping that he will be able to deliver the right facilities
before all the customers wander away.

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