Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
- Subject: Re: Aqua Human Interface and Safari
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:18:44 -0500
On 1/10/03 at 9:32 AM, Paul Ferguson <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:14 PM, Ben Kennedy wrote:
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> I think the more important point is that if Apple doesn't demonstrate
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> any respect for its own guidelines (and therefore by extension, respect
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> for those developers who DO heed the guidelines), developers will begin
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> to realise it's just hand-waving and stop caring -- and Apple's future
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> guidelines will be ignored by everyone, de facto.
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Well put, Ben. Other people on this list are going to great lengths to
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rationalize Apple's use of brushed metal in Safari when it clearly
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violates both the letter and the spirit of the HI guideline (as in,
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"Which part of 'single window' don't you understand?"). This will lead
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developers to apply these same elaborate rationalizations to their own
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products, and users will see metal or non-metal windows solely at the
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whim of the developer; metal will cease to provide any useful visual
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information to users (assuming it ever did in the first place).
Which differs from the current state of affairs how? It's _always_ been a
judgement call, and that's implied directly by the use of the word "guideline"
in this phrase that keeps popping up.
You want a rationalization? In a weird sort of way, it's incumbent upon Apple to
push at the limits suggested by the guidelines, because there are far too many
people that forget what the G stands for and start thinking of it as Human
Interface Rules Which Must Be Obeyed Without Question. Some people caught in
that viewpoint start railing against the very existence of guidelines because
they supposedly stifle creativity, and others get all sanctimonious whenever
anyone does diverge and actually _try_ to stifle creativity without any concern
for whether the divergence is reasonable or not.
People who want to comply rigorously with the HIG are going to do so regardless
of what Apple does. Those who gratuitously diverge are similarly unrestricted by
Apple's actions. The vast majority have, and will continue to, comply with the
suggestions of which they're aware unless they find a good reason not to. That's
life.
G
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