OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue Nov 20 14:49:41 2001

> It works pretty much the same as Netscape, just looks a bit different,
> (especially if you install alternave buttons etc.) - nothing you can't
> easily understand from a litle Netscape experience.
>
> Now Cyberdog - that *was* different ;-)

And still is. I've got it running on the WGS8150/80 sitting
behind me. But Cyberdog could well rise again, under Windows...

As you know, Cyberdog was essentially a container for a series
of net-enabled OpenDoc components. While Microsoft has still
never released the OpenDoc-killing Cairo OS they'd promised,
Apple and IBM did stop development of OpenDoc; meantime, Micro-
soft continued to develop the Component Object model enough
that a certain third-party is going to take advantage of it
big-time.

The party is Stardock, and the product is DesktopX. The next
generation of DesktopX will provide a framework for the use
and development of COM objects directly by the user. With
DesktopX, it'll be almost trivial to recreate Cyberdog using
COM (and ActiveX components) instead of OpenDoc.

I'll stop there since I'm drifting OT...

-dq
Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 14:49:41 GMT