Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
- Subject: Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
- From: Dan Wood <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:59:48 -0800
I would encourage all to use Safari's "Bug" button to tell Apple that
the Metal texture on Safari has got to go. Maybe enough feedback will
get them to reconsider. This is a beta, after all.
And BTW (and to try to not go completely off topic for this group), I
think it's important for us developers to continue to heed the
guidelines even if Apple doesn't. Since Apple is trying to hard to
compete with its own developers, it's one of the few ways we can have
an advantage -- to actually provide software that looks good, unlike
many of Apple's "free" applications.
Dan
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 06:33 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:14 PM, Ben Kennedy wrote:
I think the more important point is that if Apple doesn't demonstrate
any
respect for its own guidelines (and therefore by extension, respect
for
those developers who DO heed the guidelines), developers will begin to
realise it's just hand-waving and stop caring -- and Apple's future
guidelines will be ignored by everyone, de facto.
Well put, Ben. Other people on this list are going to great lengths to
rationalize Apple's use of brushed metal in Safari when it clearly
violates both the letter and the spirit of the HI guideline (as in,
"Which part of 'single window' don't you understand?"). This will lead
developers to apply these same elaborate rationalizations to their own
products, and users will see metal or non-metal windows solely at the
whim of the developer; metal will cease to provide any useful visual
information to users (assuming it ever did in the first place).
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