On 6/14/03 3:01 AM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well about all I can find on this is that Entourage, Explorer, and Apple all > share the com.apple.internetconfig.plist. This file stores MIME/suffix > mappings, some IE prefs, some Entourage prefs, and some apple prefs. > Somewhere I read that apple encouraged developers to pass off calls to this > file, so I think MS did the correct thing, and did as they were told. > However, in retrospect, the prefs probably need to be stored in a separate > location now, and it is probably a bear to go back as well. True. Jimmy Grewal [MS but resigning] published this explanation to the Internet Explorer mailing list some time ago: > The story is much more complicated than this. Even after IC was > absorbed by Apple, this continued to be the guidance on the use of IC > for some time. In theory, this was not such a bad strategy had it not > been for the fact that IC was prone to corrupting data in certain > situations. > > We don't develop our code in a vacuum. Remember, Mac IE was developed > by a team made up of many ex Apple/Claris employees only a few miles > away from Cupertino. There was a lot of interaction between our team > and Apple throughout IE's development. We made a decision to follow > their guidelines and it didn't work out. It's not the first time we've > been through that, and it probably won't be the last. > > I do except that we should have ditched IC years ago, but that didn't > happen for various reasons. Discussing that now isn't going to change > things so lets drop this topic and move on. It's a sore subject for all > of us. :( It seems to second much of what you've hypothesized. -- Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
