Carlfish wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:03:50 -0700, Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> somehow managed to type:
>
> >Mozilla is a seperate application from windows, I don't think people are
> >going to expect it to mimic the windows functions.
>
> Wrong. It's far more important that an application behave the same as
> other applications on the same platform, than it is for an application to
> behave the same way across platforms.
>
> When I type ctrl-V on my Windows box, I expect an application to perform a
> paste. The "putty" ssh app does X-like middle-click pasting on Windows,
> and it annoys me no end, despite the fact that it's a more efficient way
> of pasting, and I'm completely used to it in the context of an xterm.
>
> >apps I use that act completetly different from standard windows
> >programs.
>
> And they should be shot for it. GUI environments have style guides for
> a reason. A GUI is about setting up a consistent interaction framework for
> applications. Breaking that consistency is a BAD THING, in the same way as
> anything else that breaks the Principle of Least Surprise.
>
> Charles Miller
I agree that they should stick close to what the OS does, but I don't
think they need to behave exactly. When you use an app with somthing
different, you notice it and just adjust to it. Somtimes the
differences are improvements. Just like you example above where you
disliked the putty client, there are some apps I've used that did
somthing different. But after a day of getting used to it I noticed
that it's more efficient and I started using that app all the time
_because_ it did somthing different.
