Hello Lazarus-List, Sunday, March 7, 2010, 10:17:56 AM, you wrote:
GG> Then I guess you hate the internet as well? :) Gmail, Facebook, GG> Twiter, etc. all those little web apps that nobody uses an doesn't GG> adhere to a single OS interface. Do you now see how ridiculous the GG> "native look and feel" argument sounds? Just the above three web apps GG> have probably over a billion users and nobody complains that it GG> doesn't look like there favourite OS. Plase excuse my interference, but most web applications are windows feel and the look is native to the browser in some cases. The usual example is the combobox selection in HTML. Most browsers try to mimic its native look in the non special CSSd elements. Even default fonts are different across platforms. Even there are pages that are render completly different being browsed from Windows or MacOS, setting elements in different possitions. I'm completly unable to understand this fight between native look and custom look. Special Windows application spend a lot of resources trying to look completly different that the native look (media player in example) and others spend resources trying to be as must native as possible. Each one of them is important in different context. It would be very difficult to explain to anybody why a notebook application in windows have big translucent buttons with a fancy glass effect, or why it is designed with a 12 or 13 pt font when in Windows most users have a 10 pt font. -- Best regards, JoshyFun -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus