Yet people don't generally ask for pixel-accurate web pages and they don't ask that each web page looks like Windows, OS X or whatever the browser happens to be running in.
I've been developing Swing apps for pretty much all my professional career, and I've had exactly one where the pixels were specified, which was for an Electronic Flight Bag (think iPad, but primitive, and for pilots). -- Skype: ricky_clarkson UK phone (forwards to Skype): 0161 408 5260 On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Chris Adamson <invalidn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 20, 9:50 am, phil swenson <phil.swen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yep. OS X fanatics hate anything that doesn't look purely "native." >> They despise Air and Java.... > > Ever do professional Swing development? I had lots of enterprise > clients in the bad old days who demanded pixel-accurate Windows > versions. I remember poor Josh Marinacci spent years sweating the > details of the Windows L&F when he was at Sun. And I don't think he > particularly liked Windows. > > As developers, it's not really up to us to decide what's "good enough" > for a UI someone else will use, especially for productivity apps (like > IDEs) in which the user may spend most or all of their working day. > > Experience has left me feeling that cross-platform UIs are one of > those things that sound good on paper but never fully pan out in real > life. > > -Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
