On Feb 20, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Adam Maas wrote: >>> ... Turns >>> off a lot of the ugly graphics and animations. Whew! >> >> What I don't understand is why they think people would want them, and >> conversely why some people seem to like them. > > Ooh, Shiney! sells a lot of stuff early on (It's also a classic bit of > bragging rights in the Mac world that MS is fighting)
The thing is, however, that the Mac OS interface has always been pretty restrained and spare, with a minimum of goofy dancing silliness and "pretty just for pretty sake" kind of stuff. There have certainly been exceptions to this, but overall (aside from some people's bizarro desire to color scroll bars and such in weird colors and SJ's ridiculous "lick-able" appellation) it's pretty staid and conservative: just elegant and clean from a design graphics point of view. I absolutely DETEST the stupid little dancing help thing that Office has as a default. First time I saw it I nearly picked up a hammer and smashed the screen. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
