YES ! Le 2 mai 2010 à 04:13, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
> But with caution. I'm in favor of keeping it out of the spotlight until there > are many more apps available, hundreds hopefully. A few meager offerings is > not inspiring. > > And they have to be quality offerings. As someone who had to review and > release hundreds of HC stacks to the AOL libraries, I know that 99% of what > came in was pure crap. Because HC was so accessible, everyone thought they > were a developer. Avoidance of even the suggestion of a HIG was the norm. > Radio buttons used as checkboxes or pushbuttons ("because I like how they > look,") menus missing or out of order ("I don't need an Edit menu,") known > commercial app icons (MacWrite) used for private stack purposes ("go cd > images",) you name it. Virtually everything about these stacks was wrong. > Outsiders scoffed. Rightfully. > > And then there were the kids. I wavered between disgust and delight. Their > stacks were invariably flip card animations done with crude line drawings, > generally on topics humorous to nine year olds. "Kill Barney" was very > popular, we had probably a dozen of those, not counting the rejected ones. > The weapon of choice varied from guns (all models) to swords and knives; one > stick man farted old Barney to death. We had to make a separate library for > these and tag them with editorial code words like "simple line drawings" so > that everyone else would know not to download them. > > This lack of professionalism in HC stacks was one of the reasons it was > rarely regarded as a serious tool, and it gave HC a bad name generally. The > number of really good stacks was pretty small. Unfair as it is, the quality > of the output often reflects on the tools used rather than the authors. If > there is ever a Rev app store, it needs to have lots of files, all of which > pass a certain standard of professionalism. That means someone has to check > and verify every submission, which would open a whole other can of worms. > > I confess though, in retrospect I really do wish I'd saved a copy of "Man > Gets Beheaded By a Ceiling Fan." You had to be there. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution