How about making it flat? :P It's only one API call, if I remember well, and those have been used since Win98 with IE4...
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Posted by Poromenos on Fri 05 Sep 2003 11:05 AM — 4 posts, 11,121 views.
This sort of change is the thin edge of the wedge. :)
Gradually we (and by we I really mean Microsoft) put in tiny little enhancements, like an API call that works for Win 98 but not Win95.
Then people have to upgrade an operating system so things keep working. Then another nifty feature appears - albeit one we don't *really* need - and before you know it you need to shell out another $100 to upgrade to Windows 2000. And so on.
I rather keep things vanilla, work on all platforms, reliable and cheap. :P
Gradually we (and by we I really mean Microsoft) put in tiny little enhancements, like an API call that works for Win 98 but not Win95.
Then people have to upgrade an operating system so things keep working. Then another nifty feature appears - albeit one we don't *really* need - and before you know it you need to shell out another $100 to upgrade to Windows 2000. And so on.
I rather keep things vanilla, work on all platforms, reliable and cheap. :P
Yeah, but they don't look as nice :P Couldn't you make it so that it becomes flat only on systems newer than 95? Besides, I don't think terrible things happen if you make the API call and it's not supported... Maybe an error or something, but that's fixable, am I right?
Actually, I believe that programs crash if you make an API call that does not exist... or sometimes simply won't start at all, if they can't find the library. There are ways to check what OS you are running, I think, but I'm not sure if it's really worth the trouble. :)