On 11 Feb 2008, at 19:47, Mark Canlas wrote:

> Look and feel is shallow. In the context of software, look and feel  
> refers
> to what skin widgets have. Programmers use it when they talk about  
> Java vs
> native widgets. You can have one app and skin it different ways,  
> changing
> its "look and feel". To some extent, you could say the various  
> themes of
> Windows XP and Winamp change the product's "look and feel", but you  
> don't
> hear people say that often. Again, only Java people.
[snip]

Dunno about other people, but folk I used to work with in the pre- 
web, pre-Java days used the term in a more general way (look ==  
appearance, feel == intractions) - not just of individual widgets,  
but of the whole application. So I guess it depends who you talk to.

Adrian
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