Comment by julian_t
3 years ago
Wow, COM Structured Storage. That brings back memories, but not necessarily good ones. And as for working with OLE... ouch.
3 years ago
Wow, COM Structured Storage. That brings back memories, but not necessarily good ones. And as for working with OLE... ouch.
It was hard on the developer, but some of the features it enabled were very impressive, like the ability to arbitrarily embed documents into other documents in a way that allows composite rendering as a single piece, without the app managing either part aware of the nature of the other. In fact, I'm not aware of any modern equivalent of this tech, not even on Windows (since Office stopped supporting embedding of its documents via OLE by third-party apps).