Re: "untitled" vs "Untitled"
Re: "untitled" vs "Untitled"
- Subject: Re: "untitled" vs "Untitled"
- From: Jan Neumüller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 02:06:41 +0200
On 11.07.2005, at 00:43, John Stiles wrote:
In the context I was writing my statement, "engineering" meant "the
developers at Apple who are writing Carbon and Cocoa." Applications
may decide to deviate from the HIG in cases where it makes sense,
sure. But it's hard to come up with a case where the framework
itself (Cocoa) should violate the rules that specify how the
framework should operate (the HIG). And in this case it's very
clear that there's no compelling justification to violate the HIG,
except that some engineers think it's aesthetically displeasing.
Frankly, that's not a good justification for violating any standard
IMO.
Well as the name HIG says: Its a guideline - NOT a law. No one is
forced to do it that way and nobody can violate a guideline. I'm even
thinking of changing "untitled" to "unnamed" in my apps, as a user
names a file/document and doesn't title it. But perhaps thats
different in american english.
And I hate to say it but sometimes an engineer is more competent in
normal app-usage than a designer or psychologist who writes the
guidelines. I would always break guidelines if they don't make sense
for my apps, as is Apple...
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