Recommendations

Through producing this report, I have devised the following recommendations towards cross platform compliance, which may or may not be implemented in the future.

• File formatting standards for cross platform transfer should be submitted to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) for approval, before release to the public domain.
• A new recordable cross platform media format acceptable on PC, Macintosh, Acorn and other computers.
• Typeface handling across different platforms to converge, so that fonts used in a multimedia project appear at the same size and leading on any platform.
• The colour palette must be standardised across platforms, to prevent unwarranted colour changes in graphics sent from one platform to the other.
• All future operating systems should include embedded support for Java technology, instead of the slower method of patching a Java Virtual Machine over the operating system.