On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 09:06:37 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
Also on a device with a touch screen you need larger buttons.
Using them same buttons on a desktop application would just be
a waste of space that could be used for the content area
instead. You can use a lot smaller buttons on a desktop
application where you have access to a mouse. Using the same
small buttons on a device with a touch screen would not be very
smart.
BTW, what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8, I think that's so
wrong I don't know how to describe it.
That's the power of a declarative UI: separate behaviour and
design. If you want a larger button, touch sensitive - even
thought sensitive :), just change the design to better suit
device features, but don't change the behaviour. Just to keep
your scroll bar example: in desktop world we can keep the scroll
bar visible on the screen. In the touch sensitive world, we can
hide most of scrollbar content, keep only some arrows to tell the
user there is more data, but leave it to respond to common
gestures to scroll up and down. From the programmer perspective,
The scrollbar object will have the same methods, same events and
the same properties. The end user/designer will call/use these
methods/properties performing different actions specific to
target device.
