YES !
Le 2 mai 2010 à 04:13, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
> But with caution. I'm in favor of keeping it out of the spotlight until there
> are many more apps available, hundreds hopefully. A few meager offerings is
> not inspiring.
>
> And they have to be quality offerings. As someone who had to review and
> release hundreds of HC stacks to the AOL libraries, I know that 99% of what
> came in was pure crap. Because HC was so accessible, everyone thought they
> were a developer. Avoidance of even the suggestion of a HIG was the norm.
> Radio buttons used as checkboxes or pushbuttons ("because I like how they
> look,") menus missing or out of order ("I don't need an Edit menu,") known
> commercial app icons (MacWrite) used for private stack purposes ("go cd
> images",) you name it. Virtually everything about these stacks was wrong.
> Outsiders scoffed. Rightfully.
>
> And then there were the kids. I wavered between disgust and delight. Their
> stacks were invariably flip card animations done with crude line drawings,
> generally on topics humorous to nine year olds. "Kill Barney" was very
> popular, we had probably a dozen of those, not counting the rejected ones.
> The weapon of choice varied from guns (all models) to swords and knives; one
> stick man farted old Barney to death. We had to make a separate library for
> these and tag them with editorial code words like "simple line drawings" so
> that everyone else would know not to download them.
>
> This lack of professionalism in HC stacks was one of the reasons it was
> rarely regarded as a serious tool, and it gave HC a bad name generally. The
> number of really good stacks was pretty small. Unfair as it is, the quality
> of the output often reflects on the tools used rather than the authors. If
> there is ever a Rev app store, it needs to have lots of files, all of which
> pass a certain standard of professionalism. That means someone has to check
> and verify every submission, which would open a whole other can of worms.
>
> I confess though, in retrospect I really do wish I'd saved a copy of "Man
> Gets Beheaded By a Ceiling Fan." You had to be there.
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