Open standards are fine but I hope they don't end up with a lowest common denominator. One of the frustrating things about Poser is that it doesn't work like a real Windows application many times (and probably not like a real Mac application either). Not having to maintain multiple codebases has advantages (cost certainly being a major one), but having something as close as possible to native applications is real nice. Hopefully, the platform-independant standards are all in the plumbing (OpenGL, etc.) and not in the UI.

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