off topic: accessibility with mac stuff?

[Travis Siegel]

I don't know if asking if coco apps will never be ported to windows  
is the correct question.  That's like asking if visual basic programs  
will be ported to the mac.  It's possible, but whether or not the  
company that owns the app will do it is another question.  Having  
said that, quick time (by apple btw) apps can be ported to run on mac  
and windows.  If coded properly, it's possible to generate windows  
and mac versions of the program from the same source.  Whether or not  
this is what was done with itunes I do not know, but I have both  
development kits, and the coding necessary to make compatible  
versions for both is relatively minor.  So perhaps the question  
should be, will we ever see voice over ported to windows.  I doubt  
it, but I could see a time when it's a part of bsd or linux.  Wishful  
thinking at this point, but I could see where it *could* happen.


On Oct 24, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> Does this mean that Coco apps can never be ported to or run in  
> Windows?
> If so then Mac users will never have Voice-Over access to the MS  
> office
> apps either, will they.  BTW, the windows port of Itunes is  
> dispicable!
> It is one of the most inaccessible programs I've seen.  Even with my
> Window-Eyes set files, it is very dificult to use.  And furthermore,
> Apple apparently has no intentions to support a linux port of itunes.
>
> What little I saw of Voice-Over, I was impressed with the native
> environment but it would appear there is a lot of stuff that still  
> won't
> work with it.  I still prefer the non proprietary implementation of
> Speakup and the Linux kernel.
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:24:33PM -0400, David Poehlman wrote:
>
>> actually, ITunes is quite usable but to et picky about it, ITunes is
>> used mainly by windows users so apple code it that way so that they
>> can use it.  PUt it in coco and you loose windows users.
>>
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