Bob, You missed the point of my comment entirely. You'll find no argument for a million gremlins, OS compatibility, memory checking and other technical issues from me at all. I beat my code and our hardware into the ground for things like this before it goes out the door. The issue I have is that the aesthetic design guides are way too strict. It makes the original Macintosh MMI style guide look like a walk in the park. If you are doing something of a mass market such as mail reader or web browser, there could be justifications. However, with this small form factor, it is definitely function over form when it comes to dictating button size, spacing of edit controls, "readability" of dialogs and requiring Shortcuts for everything even though there is no customer interest. This has kept me away for Platinum Certification. Thus, it is a big issue. Not all of us developers target people on a bus or sitting in a meeting as their user base. For us, one thing we look at is how well our software works when someone is wearing work gloves as they use the device. Cheri's comments earlier were very welcome. I will definitely be composing some data to her concerning this. What may be in order is a secondary "Golden Certification" with less stringent guidelines. Steve Bob Ebert wrote: > At 10:14 PM +0100 13-02-00, Christopher Hunt wrote: > >On the customer note: Palm's endorsement is not so much for your customer, > >but more for Palm and other corporations to see that you're a serious player. > >If you approach a corporation and they see that you're part of Palm's family > >then they may get the 'warm and fuzzies'! > > It's both for Palm, for Palm's customers (your potential customers), and > for you. > > Palm: When we did the Palm OS 3.5 release, we tested all the platinum apps > for compatibility. The thinking is, if they're platinum they must be doing > it right, or at least will have let us know when they didn't do it right. > So, if they're doing it right and it's broken, then it must be our problem! > > Customers: Platinum status is our blessing that you're doing it right. > That's useful. > > You: Yes, getting to Platinum is hard! A good chunk of our own engineering > time is spent fixing really nasty hard to track down bugs that users will > probably never see, but which show up in gremlins before we reach 1 million > events. But the result is a much better application, which never crashes > and which never loses data... which means fewer maintenance releases. > > So bear with it. You can exercise your apps yourself and make sure they'll > pass Platinum testing when submitted. This will be the bulk of the work. > The actual Platinum certification should really be more of a formality. > That's why the criteria are published: so you can get your apps in shape > before making the request! > > --Bob > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see >http://www.palm.com/devzone/mailinglists.html -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palm.com/devzone/mailinglists.html
