On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Bill Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not necessarily. You are assuming that all other interfaces are inferior to > Macintosh interfaces.
No, I am asserting that not following the conventions established on the Mac is inferior to following those conventions, regardless of whether you're following those of some other platform. > Depending on the application, there may have been a > great deal of work in designing an interface specifica to a particular > discipline. See Photoshop, Illustrator, 3DS Max... all of which are criticized for behaving counter to user expectation. And for an extreme example of what happens when you let programmers make these sorts of decisions, look at Blender. > The layout may be a "standard" form required by law or other > convention. I am not suggesting that one port the code, just the forms and > menu labels. I know of no statute that mandates Look & Feel, and I seriously doubt one exists. As for "other convention", typically people are talking about fear of user re-education. But we're talking about porting an application to the Macintosh, which means either a version for the Mac didn't exist before, or the one that did exist was considered insufficient and needed to be replaced. > Once they are ported to a nib, they can be modified to better > conform to Mac HI guidelines. This will require so much effort as to be pointless. And it would probably result in a poor interface with the design patterns that permeate Cocoa. > But until there is an pathway to port applications at all, there is no > incentive to even create the applications on a Mac. Rubbish, poppycock, and an absolute falsehood. You are assuming that all applications written for the Mac are inferior to applications written for other platforms. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
