--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > So I have three ways to handle these reports: > > a) Tell them it's conformant with Micro$oft's > published spec and so they > need to get used to it, possibly providing an email > address for > Micro$oft's design team so they can complain > directly to the source. > > b) Ignore Micro$oft's XP Visual Design Guidelines > and use their darker > background color (the tan behind the tab) for the > tab control itself. > > c) Use the Gaslight method: Tell 'em it's actually > the same but their > vision has changed. ;) > > > I've been doing a), but as more reports come in I'm > considering the > possibility that the > enormously-well-funded-yet-still-tasteless UI team > at Micro$oft may have gotten it wrong; maybe that > color is indeed too light. > > So do I conform to Micro$oft and face the wrath of > customers, or conform > to the customers and face the wrath of reviewers? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any > Web site > > Richard, I've always hated the WS doom and gloom colors. If they've lightened up recently, and that's the new GUI from MS, then go with it. (Or start a new one: get crap from everyone!)
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