"Simon Trew" <strew_at_orange.net> wrote in
news:e0wAYFxtCHA.456_at_TK2MSFTNGP09:
>
> "Mark Thornton" <m.p.thornton_at_ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:avgsh4$f9pp1$1_at_ID-139894.news.dfncis.de...
>>
>> A growing number of 'Windows applications' written with other tools
>> don't look like standard Windows GUI applications either. It seems to
>> be the
> done
>> thing for media players for example to be as different as possible from
> the
>> normal conventions. So whether the relatively minor deviations
>> exhibited
> by
>> typical Java applications are important will depend on the target
>> market.
> In
>> any case will the user notice or care that an app is different because
>> it was written in Java compared with countless other applications which
>> are different just because the author has a wierd sense of style.
>>
>
> How true. Why is it that Microsoft can never stick to their own UI
> guidelines-- they call it "innovation" which I suppose it is, but if we
> try it then we're told we're nonstandard! The MS Office nonmenu menus
> and nonstandard open dialog spring to mind. And personally I would like
> my media player to look like a normal window with normal buttons etc.
> thank you.
>
Read "Proudly serving my corporate masters"
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595161286
by Adam Barr and you'll know why :)
FB
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