Thick Borders vs thin Borders
Thick Borders vs thin Borders
- Subject: Thick Borders vs thin Borders
- From: Steve Sheets <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:57:33 -0500
Ok, another User Interface Question.
The Aqua User Interface Guidelines are very exact about this point: the
border between the left side of the window, and the first control
should be 20 pixels. In fact, all the borders should be this. The
Interface Builder guides help developer layout the window with this
large 20 pixel border.
HOWEVER, there does seem to be instances when a much smaller border is
desired. This is usually when the window is mostly filled with large
items like large scrollable text fields or list fields. In these cases,
the larger border looks bad. This is especially true for Metal windows!
And Apple breaks their own rules (I know big surprise), and often uses
a smaller border. For example, iPhoto, Sherlock, iCal & Quicktime
Player all use various smaller borders (each one different).
Lastly if you place a Toolbar on your application, like all good Aqua
apps should have, the first item of the toolbar is much closer than 20
pixel to the left of the screen. So if you follow the Aqua User
Interface Guidelines EXACTLY, your first control on your window will
still lay closer to the left side, and not line up with the other
controls on the window.
So, given that people do it, and we need it, shouldn't we have a
consistent small border constant. Say in the 6-10 pixel size?
Any comments?
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