Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Bill Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The layout may be a "standard" form required by law or other
convention. I am not suggesting that one port the code, just the
forms and
menu labels.
I know of no statute that mandates Look & Feel, and I seriously doubt
one exists.
While I'm not aware of any legal requirements that regarding on-
screen presentation, there are fields that have standard or even
required forms and document layouts. It's certainly reasonable to
argue that depending on the proficiencies of your audience the best
solution for data entry *could* be to mimic the appearance of those
standards. It'd be nice to also offer a more streamlined, assisted
entry view, somewhat like what Macintax/Turbotax has done.
But until there is an pathway to port applications at all, there
is no
incentive to even create the applications on a Mac.
Rubbish, poppycock, and an absolute falsehood. You are assuming that
all applications written for the Mac are inferior to applications
written for other platforms.
No. He's just saying that the lack of tools that make it easy to port
apps to the Mac stops some specific apps from migrating to the Mac.
And he's right. The real issue is whether that's automatically a bad
thing, given that the same laziness that keeps people from porting
*without* those tools is very likely to keep them from performing the
necessary post-processing on the output of them. In my experience
it's a very rare interface where "add items to the window" is going
to consume significant resources relative to "and then arrange them
visually and logically in a way that conforms to user needs and
expectations."
G
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