Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
- Subject: Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
- From: Joshua S Emmons <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:23:43 -0500
Not even talking about the bug reporter feature which appears in a sheet
from nowhere... Aren't sheets supposed to be "forbidden" on metallized
windows?
No...? They just happen to appear with the default sheet background and
thus look weird & are generally unused, but they're not forbidden.
Besides, the bug reporting thing is only temporary.
Actually, "sortof". The HIG says you shouldn't have a sheet come from a
window that doesn't have a title bar, because it would look like the
sheet came from "nowhere". That is to say, when there is a title bar,
there's a nice line dividing it from the rest of the window. Sheets
look like they come out from under this line, are anchored to this line,
and then appear to be "rolled up" under this line.
While textured windows have title bars, they have no line demarking the
bar from any other part of the window. Thus there is nothing for the
sheet to "roll under". It appears to pop out of the middle of the
brushed aluminum surface and then just float there like a dialog
(because there's no line there for it to anchor itself to, visually).
That's what makes it look jarring.
Anyway, in this case Apple is fallowing the letter of the law, but not
the spirit.
And while the bug reporting tool may not be present forever, a sheet
still pops up whenever you drag a URL to the bookmarks. Presumably the
ability to make new bookmarks will be present in the final version?
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