On 2013-11-29 18:03, thedeemon wrote:
This is pure Mac talk.
In Windows the "native" UI elements are so scarce and primitive, that
most apps with decent UI end up making their own. For example, one would
assume that UI elements that can be found in MS Office are native and
can be used in other apps. But they are not, Office used its own UI
library and never shared it with anyone. Ribbon implementation that
comes with recent Visual Studio is a completely different implementation
made by custom drawing, mimicking the look of Office. Actually, there
are even several different implementations, for different languages.
Relying purely on native controls leads nowhere.
And Linux notion of "native" is already discussed and destroyed before me.
That's why Mac OS X is so great, it's consistent :). But Apple creates
custom controls as well. An example is the tabs available in Safari and
Xcode. Other applications are trying to emulate them with various
degrees of success. Path Finder does a very good emulation of Safari tabs.
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/Jacob Carlborg
