Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
- Subject: Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:06:09 -0500
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Thanh Ly wrote:
More specifically to the topic at hand, Cocoa vs. Qt, it's just a
matter of taste.
Well... it's a *bit* more than that. To many folks, a QT application on
Mac OS X will appear broken. It won't support the same set of
fundamental services and interfaces that a Mac OS X application should.
So in many contexts it can move from "I prefer it the other way" into
"this does not behave correctly."
It doesn't matter if the new dev environment is better or easier to
learn, it's all about style and comfort.
I would argue that it's about functionality first, and style and
comfort second. If you preferred style simply doesn't work, then you
have to adopt a new style.
A consistent UI look/feel for cross platform apps is essential.
See, I believe that exactly the opposite is true. It is not essential
for different platform instantiations of the same application to work
in the same way. In fact, it's downright harmful. Rather, each platform
instantiation needs to look and act like applications on that platform
should.
I'm back to my model-view-controller thing now. I won't repeat myself.
A business man would say "what ever gets the job done faster is
better." A programmer would say "what ever makes efficient programs is
better."
Both of these individuals *should* say that the only thing that matters
is that users accept the program. The neatest GUI toolkit in the world
will doom your venture to failure if the users don't like the results.
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