At 6:36 -0600 28/1/03, Christian M. M. Brady wrote:
A problem with what Apple is doing now is that they aren't obeying their own UI guidelines. The current TidBITS has some comments on this in a review of Safari. I've also seen it with the character palette. At first, I thought that it didn't support drag and drop, which was puzzling. Then someone said it did, and I discovered that the "single gesture" behaviour that the Aqua UI guidelines describe doesn't work - you have to click on a glyph and hold it for a short time before being able to drag it.And I believe that Apples UI guidelines state that everything must be available as a menu item. (I.e., you aren't supposed to have any thing that is only available as a drawer, tool bar, or palette.) Of course, that might have changed in OSX...
If Apple won't obey their own guidelines, are they harming just themselves, or the developers who do try to follow them?
John
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John Brownie
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Papua New Guinea
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