On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I htink part of the point of a cross-platform product is to > > make sure the user doesn't know what platform they're > > running on. That is, of course, think. Can't wait until we get the DSL in....mmmm, responsiveness.... > That's pretty clearly a violation of the church > secretary principle. For such a user, the application > should follow all the UI guidelines of whatever platform > it's being run on. This means that it is going to be > slightly different from platform to platform, as > different platforms will have different UI guidelines. Perhaps I was hasty in either thinking or acting here. As an aside, I tend to be somewhat skeptical of UI guidelines for a platform--a word processor under Windows should *not* look like a graphics package under Windows. More to the point, the idea is that "a user should not *have to* know" what platform they're running on, or even that other platforms exist. So we're all in agreement except for the foot in my mouth. (Incidentally, if anyone's wondering about me being all talk and no code, I promise there'll be some patches coming. I just finished up most of my undergrad requirements. As soon as my senior project is done, I'll be able to spare a few hours a week for Abi coding. Hopefully in time to help squish bugs for 1.0) --Jon, N9RUJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.calvin.edu/~jnieho38 To seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man. --Mercedes, The Count of Monte Cristo
