Will Apple follow UX Guidelines?


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The examples you cite are BS.? Applications on the Mac are the exact same way.? Every application is going to have it's own "look," that's just how things work.? At least on Windows, the vast majority of applications use the standard window controls.? Apple's software on Windows doesn't even try.

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No apparently that's not how things work. Practically all applications on Mac OS X use the Aqua interface. They use the same buttons, dialog boxes, toolbar icon style, windows controls, interface guidelines, more or less the same layout especially when it comes to the Menubar and Preference windows and 128 px sized icons.

Where on Windows many applications stop using the default look beyond the title bar, scrollbars and "OK" buttons. The toolbar sections are especially inconsistent and a lot of icons are still 32 px in size.

If you want to bash Apple do it right.

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i wish ALL application would follow the native look of the OS (no "skins" etc) so that way i can change the Windows theme and it would change it for ALL my apps...............(i hate how WMP and MSN Messenger and Winamp etc are using dumb skins)

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i wish ALL application would follow the native look of the OS (no "skins" etc) so that way i can change the Windows theme and it would change it for ALL my apps...............(i hate how WMP and MSN Messenger and Winamp etc are using dumb skins)

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exactly! i believe this should be the rule. no app-side skins. just apps that use the original feel of the OS.

what makes me feel like each time we'll have less of those is the new customizability of the avalon controls :\ you can have buttons look totally different from the os. which, imo, sucks.

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One software's UI may not be suitable for another software's function.

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show me three cases where a skin defines the functionality ;)

we're talking about skins. not controls. if the os doesn't have a control, the programmer can feel free to create it... but do so in the feel of the OS... not in some awkward way.

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