Richard....
I must say that I'm of two minds on this.
On the one hand, Apple moving away from the drawer does make the app
more cross-platform compatible. OTOH, drawers are way cooler than
splitters (because, among other things, they can be relocated to the
left or right). I HATE the new Mail UI. I miss the drawer. I miss the
ability to close/open it. I miss the ability to relocate it.
Drawers are a UI improvement. For Apple to disavow them in one of its
key apps is IMNSHO a concession to mediocrity and a distasteful step
backward.
As, for that matter, was the other decision in Mail (decidedly NOT
toward standards compliance), the elimination of the mbox format for
mail. dumb.
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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit/RevConWest
On May 28, 2005, at 1:47 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Kurt Kaufman wrote:
Pretty far OT for the Revolution list, but of interest
specifically to those of us who are writing applications for Mac
OS X, a review:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/26/tiger_ui_review/
Thanks for posting that. Interesting read.
I followed one of the links in that to:
<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/3>
...where the author notes a change in Tiger that may bode well for
us multi-platform developers:
Apple did finally come to its senses and
ditch the mailbox drawer, replacing it
with a splitter pane on the left.
Mail had previously been the most popular app using drawers, and
its use encouraged other UI designers to follow suit. The problem
for us, of course, is that drawers are platform-specific, so if we
use them we need to figure out how to display the same information
without them for the majority of our customers using all other OSes.
This move by Apple is most welcome: every OS uses splitter panes
widely, and they're easy to implement in Rev on all of them.
Apple has "rejoined the family of nations" with this move, and
while I've managed to avoid the drawers conundrum thus far at last
I'm confident I won't need to bother thinking about it at all.
Coupled with the coming two-button mouse, Apple is making our work
supporting their OS easier and easier....
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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