No Big Deal about Snow Leopard?

Not too many people have asked but, anyhow here's the answer.

On 2009 Aug 28, at 18:01, Typical User wrote:

> I found nothing about Snow Leopard Compatibility on your Web site.  Huh?

Ha!  That's because properly-designed applications shouldn't need to updated when Apple updates the OS.  When you read on a software developer's website that an app has been Great Achievement! Updated for Mac OS 10.Whatever!, that usually means one of two things, in order of frequency:

  • "We had to go back and fix all of our kludges that we could no longer get away with under the new OS version."
  • "In the previous Mac OS version, we had worked around some of Apple's bugs in the OS.  In the new OS version, Apple fixed these bugs but, Grrrrrrrrrrrr, not the way we had expected them to back when we wrote our workaround."

Well, actually, Bookdog did had one of each, that resulted in a couple of cosmetic issues when running under 10.6.  These fixes are in 5.3.5+.  For details, see the Version History.

Sincerely,

Jerry Krinock