on 7/23/02 11:03 PM, Lou Forlini at lforlini_at_sspi-software.com wrote:
>
> At 7:50 PM -0700 7/23/02, Ed Kummel wrote:
>> Wow! I didn't know that the Mac didn't already have
>> the drag-n-drop option available on all OSs. I've
>> done this with Windows for years!
>
> Now Ed, you're being disingenuous again (unless you're
> purposefully being humorous). I'm sure that you know that Apple
> invented "drag and drop", long before you Windows guys knew that you
> wanted it.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Lou Forlini
> Software Engineer
> System Support Products, Inc.
Actually, I think he's referring to drag-n-drop for FTP sites. Personally,
I think that's a very bad idea. I want to be absolutely clear where my
computer stops and the rest of the world begins. Now, make it as easy as
drag-n-drop, perhaps... But to have something not physically on your
machine look just like another disk or folder... No way! The end of that
path lies in a world of never knowing where anything is stored, whether you
have control of it, and ending up having to be tied to making micropayments
to somebody's 'mothership' for your software to work at all.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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