On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Hassan Schroeder <has...@webtuitive.com> wrote: > On 12/28/11 8:08 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
[snip] >> Since they aren't navigating hypermedia, I'm not sure that's >> comparable. But typically you have a fine degree of user control of >> the opening of new windows in such programs. At the very least, it's >> predictable. > > > Sorry, that's just nonsense. > > Take a non-technical-consumer app like Skype. On my Mac, it opens a > single window when launched. > > Some functions change the content of that window; two open new windows. > Which two functions? Feel free to predict, I'll wait :-) Point taken, I'm giving desktop apps too much credit here. FWIW Apple do provide guidance for how windows in OS X are supposed to work: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Windows/Windows.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-TPXREF21 Not sure Skype is following that guidance … -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
