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註冊: 2009/1/4
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已發表: 2009/1/4 上午11:51
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With a Mac version, you could OWN Xfire !
Please make a Mac version. =)
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註冊: 2009/1/3
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已發表: 2009/1/4 下午12:32
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Just to add my .98¢ short of a dollar, please make this Mac compatible!
I just signed up and, well... this is about all I can do here.
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註冊: 2009/1/10
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已發表: 2009/1/10 上午12:22
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add another vote ... new user that can only post on the forums. I'm sad because of how well WoW run on the Macs, right down to the special little video recorder options. I hope one day this happens, in the meantime I have to hang my head in ridicule while my cousins and friends make fun of me for having the far superior hardware and software, but without the software support 
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註冊: 2009/1/15
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已發表: 2009/1/17 下午2:20
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yes, add me to the list of people who signed up only to see there was no mac version. would love one!
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註冊: 2009/1/30
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已發表: 2009/1/30 下午1:44
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Please, please, please can you add some Mac support, even if it is a manual entry or a link to the Armoury to pick up your data 
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註冊: 2008/9/30
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已發表: 2009/2/17 下午4:51
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Mac support would be really nice indeed.
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註冊: 2009/2/21
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已發表: 2009/2/21 上午11:05
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Macintoshes make up about ten percent of the desktop computer market so supporting the Mac would instantly allow the Magelo WoW user base to increase by about ten percent or more.
I do not think that even creating a .dmg file is necessary.
An executable .jar archive file is easy to create and it is a self-contained, system-independent Java application file. They can be compressed, so there is not even a need to .zip it!
With Java 6, very nice desktop integration is supported without resorting to native or even system-specific Java code.
At a minimum, all that is really needed is for Magelo to publish their upload file format. It cannot possibly do any harm. If Magelo fixes their uploader's bugs so it works on a Mac - that is all the better. It saves someone else the effort of creating one from scratch.
Merely publishing the uploader's file formats opens the door to: a) someone creating a Mac and/or Linux version of the uploader, b) verification that the official application is really reading certain WoW fies and only changing its own bookkeeping files via user-supplied .policy security file (standard Java thing), c) users straightening out glitches if the file ever gets corrupted or there is some versioning problem down the road or working around temporary bugs.
I have to point out that Blizzard for its part has done a pretty good job of documenting their file formats. Thus, making it possible for the Magelo team to create their uploader program in the first place!
Magelo could hardly argue that it is necessary to have a "secret file format" or secret "file upload URL" when in fact Blizzard has been very forthright what their file formats are - and Magelo itself is using the information.
Yeah, it is true that the Magelo server side developers would have to check for overly long strings, out-of-range indexing errors - and the like. But hopefully, they are doing that stuff anyway and if they aren't they should anyway. Because failure to do so would be a vulnerability or at least frailty to the server side code, if they weren't.
Personally, I think they should ship their software with a user-configurable Java .policy file now too. The reason being this would go an extremely long way to allay user concerns that the software may be doing something untoward to the users WoW client, account, documents, or operating system.
With a .policy file that is at some user-specified location, one does not have to worry about trojans as far as I know.
Creating a Mac compatible version of the uploader should be a trivial exercise.
Rationale for saying this is easy to understand. Java standard library is portable. No MS-Windows specific functions are required to read/parse WoW XML files or read/parse text files. Java has excellent/simple API for uploading files/data to HTTP servers as well.
Uploading the data displayed by Magelo to their server should be straight-forward programming.
If the Magelo staff cannot read the source code written by the uploader developers and understand it welll enough to make it work on the Mac then I see the following problem.
That means they don't know themselves what the code does and for WoW players, that is very dangerous indeed. Making it work on the Macintosh would be a sort of indication that the software was safe and not a "black box" to management/operators of Magelo.com.
I hope Magelo will ponder these ideas and some existing Windows users - and a lot of would-be Mac-users - will see the merits of what I am saying and speak up. The community would be bigger and safer as a result.
That benefits everybody and harms nobody, yes?
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註冊: 2009/2/23
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已發表: 2009/3/3 上午4:05
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I also registered on this site only to be severely disappointed that there is no Mac version. It seems hard to believe in this modern age of cross-platform development.
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註冊: 2009/3/3
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已發表: 2009/3/3 下午3:08
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No Mac version?, Welcome to 1999?
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註冊: 2009/4/23
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已發表: 2009/4/23 下午1:29
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looking for a mac as well.
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註冊: 2008/7/1
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註冊: 2008/9/4
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已發表: 2009/5/10 下午1:06
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Just adding my support for Mac users - even if it's thru the website.
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註冊: 2009/5/21
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已發表: 2009/5/21 下午6:07
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Considering that Macs tend to be usable longer and so many PCs lie dormant in offices and closets, it becomes clear that Mac users are an even more significant portion of the market than the sales statistics would indicate. Plus there are few options for online gaming for Mac users, so we flock to Blizzard. When the topic has come up, I have found that at least 20% of Warcrack addicts I personally know use Macs, possibly higher--and most of my friends are total geeks and intellectuals. I MIGHT use a website version of Magelo for a sig tool or something like that, but I don't see the point in belaboring this subject if Mac users are once again to be considered 2nd class citizens.
Hopefully whatever version of Magelo for Mac arrives this summer is comparable if not identical to the Windows version. Take a cue from Blizzard and build using platform independent architecture.
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註冊: 2009/7/28
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已發表: 2009/7/28 下午8:48
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I just want to push again for Magelo for Mac. I think it's ridiculous that in 2009 there are actually companies that think this is actually an "option" I have to say, I am less likely to support something with this attitude.
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註冊: 2001/5/4
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已發表: 2009/7/29 下午3:08
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I hear your pain and I understand... Supporting the Mac platform is something we really want to do, it's part of the new client platform we are working on. The good news is that we are working on it and definitely gonna happen, the bad news is that it's not for next week unfortunately We are more likely targeting September but believe me, it will worth all the time you waited.
So don't worry, we will not let you down on this, just give us little more time.
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