Re: Cross-platform, the freedom to choose any computer

Arctic Fidelity wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:51:25 -0600, Peter Ammon <gershwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Otto Wyss wrote: 
I think it's worth to think a little about "Cross-platform Development"
and have therefore written this paper here:
 http://wyoguide.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=Cross-platform.html
 See for yourself, if it's something you can use.
 O. Wyss

If every program runs on every platform, what's the point in having more than one platform?

Put another way - if you don't code to take advantage of the features and obey the human interface standards of a particular platform, your program will be inferior (on that platform) to one that does.

It seems to me that one can still create an application that would be considered cross-platform while at the same time utilizing the native features of any one OS.

Yes, but it's a tradeoff. The more platform-specific features and code you add, the more it begins to look like multiple programs and less like a single portable program.

Does the fact that a program may have individual/unique parts of its code dedicated to specific platforms so that the program can take advantage of specific features of that platform subsequently render it not portable? 

It renders it less portable.

-Peter

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