On 12/29/11 8:55 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
FWIW Apple do provide guidance for how windows in OS X are supposed to work:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Windows/Windows.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-TPXREF21
Not sure Skype is following that guidance …
And unfortunately, "guidance" such as this is often ambiguous; the
Skype developers may have considered the two items that open to be
"panels" in the OS X sense.
The point is that as an end user I have no idea in advance that one
function changes this window, another launches another window.
But that's what happens, so clearly the developers felt there was a
contextual difference that meant replacing the main window content
with this other content was inappropriate.
Why should *web apps* be unconditionally constrained from the same
context-driven behavior?
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