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Re: Version 10 rant
To continue your car comparison. No, there is no guarantee but I'm sure the
individual components will still function as those of the original!!!!!!
Mick (I only want what I brought to work)
"Gary W Dumbleton" <gary@gwd.net> wrote in message
news:ekmihu$4hc5@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Hi Mike,
>
> If you bought a new car, is there any guarantee that the new one will
> perform as trouble free as the old one?
>
> I think this is very subjective.
>
> NOF 10 is quite a change from NOF 9.1, with many new features, many new
> ways to do things, complete redo of the user interface, new flash
> components, new flash photo gallery, complete control over css and lots
> more. I would guess that with the addition of all of the new features,
> while keeping compatibility with old features and the integration of all
> of these, there is always a chance that there will be bugs. (This is not
> reserved for NOF or WSP, why do you think that Microsoft puts out weekly
> updates to Windows and I bet no-one will be guaranteeing that Vista will
> be as good or better than XP - another topic)
>
> I do not know whether you have been observing WSP lately. I sure have,
> both as a user and as a beta tester, and they seem to be very dedicated to
> the development of NOF. One big step was that NOF now generates valid
> code, a very large step for NOF.
>
> With the major changes in this version, I am sure, will come some bugs,
> but rest assured that WSP will be on top of it by releasing updates in a
> timely fashion.
>
> I have never felt so good about NOF.
>
> The development team, is very serious about producing a problem free, full
> featured, website development tool, the beta testers are working very hard
> to identify and duplicate possible bugs, WPS is also working hard to
> remedy any bugs that have been found.
>
> Guarantee no! but hard work and dedication to attain a state of the art
> development tool, I would say so.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth.
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> Gary
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> "Mick Pattison" <mick.pattison@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ekmhba$3s67@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
>> OK, there may be a conflict between development and fixes but they broke
>> it on two counts through the release of 9.0 and the 9.1 fix. As a
>> customer who purchased the software (NOF 9.0) surely I am entitled to a
>> product that works the same as the previously installed (NOF 8.0), or to
>> put it another way fixes should correct errors in the bells and whistles
>> of 9.0 and not what was broken by the implementation of the upgrade. What
>> guarantee have I got that if I upgraded my system so that NOF 10 can be
>> installed it will work as NOF 8 did or NOF 9.0/9.1 should have.
>>
>> Mick
>>
>> "Allison Moore" <dumpALLISONlowercase@forgetMETAthisHEALTHand.CO M> wrote
>> in message news:A921.1164839700.1001@gfwebforum.com...
>>>> but please can we fix what's broken before adding more bells and
>>>> whistles. Thanks
>>>
>>> This has been my plea for every app I've ever used, not just NOF. :-) To
>>> date, it's gone largely unheeded.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, people don't pay for bug fixes (or at least they don't
>>> want to). And reviewers and pundits don't care about bug fixes. They
>>> only care about bells & whistles. Nevertheless, it costs a lot of time
>>> and money to fix things. I know -- I work for a software company.)
>>> There's a constant push-pull between fixes and new development, between
>>> the need to clean up your messes and the need to pay your employees.
>>>
>>> Am I letting Website Pros off the hook? Absolutely not. But it helps to
>>> bait the hook with a little compassion and understanding. :-)
>>>
>>> Allison
>>>
>>>
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