Re: Which alternate row color spec is correct?
Re: Which alternate row color spec is correct?
- Subject: Re: Which alternate row color spec is correct?
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:42:20 +0200
Hi all,
Sorry that I answer this question one month too late. ;)
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 13:17 Europe/Copenhagen, M. Uli Kusterer
wrote:
At 18:52 Uhr -0600 30.06.2003, Dave Thorup wrote:
I was just looking at Safari and noticed that although the view for
the
bookmarks has the first row white and the second colored, the view
for the
Downloads window is the exact opposite! (first row colored, second
white)
So Apple can't even be consistent with this in the same application.
Uhhh... folks, you're kidding, right? What does it matter which cell
is colored first? I mean, it's a scrolling list, after all, depending
on what location you've scrolled it to, a different row will be at the
top.
I think as long as the rows _do_ alternate colors, thus making it
easier to tell them apart, we really shouldn't worry any more.
I'm a user interface fanatic myself, but I think such minutiae are
only important when it comes to printing such tables without a
scrollbar in the context of a page on paper (think XPress or > Indesign).
You're absolutely right, but there is actually one thing I'd like to
mention here:
If you start by keeping the background for the first item, you might
make your app slightly faster.
-Eg: Why do more work than necessary ?
Imagine you have 3 visible rows. If you paint the first and the third
row blue, you will have to paint twice (remember, the background has
already been painted white!)
-Now, if you paint only the second row blue, you'll do half the work. :)
...Just my opinion on it. ;)
Love,
Jens
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