> In any design profession, whether it's software interfaces, > industrial design, architecture, etc., the designer is forced to > choose between two things (1) what is the accepted practice and > (2) what is the purest (best) design.
Perhaps. But if you are a professional programmer (as opposed to programming for fun or your own boss), your only real choice is (1) implement the specification you have been given or (2) look for another job. How to implement it is often up to you - but *what* to implement and what not usually isn't. In fact, I would argue even in the designer case. Very often you are forced to design what most of the users want - not what you think would be "the purest design" or anything like that. Of course, if you're creating an application for your own pleasure, you can have the luxory of doing it the way you think it ought to be done, and the stupid users be damned. Alas, in real life, one can't often have this little luxory... :-( Regards, Vesselin -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
