OT: Tiger's Interface Quirks

[Dan Shafer]

Richard....

I must say that I'm of two minds on this.

On the one hand, Apple moving away from the drawer does make the app  
more cross-platform compatible. OTOH, drawers are way cooler than  
splitters (because, among other things, they can be relocated to the  
left or right). I HATE the new Mail UI. I miss the drawer. I miss the  
ability to close/open it. I miss the ability to relocate it.

Drawers are a UI improvement. For Apple to disavow them in one of its  
key apps is IMNSHO a concession to mediocrity and a distasteful step  
backward.

As, for that matter, was the other decision in Mail (decidedly NOT  
toward standards compliance), the elimination of the mbox format for  
mail. dumb.


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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
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June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
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On May 28, 2005, at 1:47 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Kurt Kaufman wrote:
>
>> Pretty far OT for the Revolution list, but of interest  
>> specifically to those of us who are writing applications for Mac  
>> OS X, a review:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/26/tiger_ui_review/
>>
>
> Thanks for posting that. Interesting read.
>
> I followed one of the links in that to:
> <http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/3>
>
> ...where the author notes a change in Tiger that may bode well for  
> us multi-platform developers:
>
>    Apple did finally come to its senses and
>    ditch the mailbox drawer, replacing it
>    with a splitter pane on the left.
>
>
> Mail had previously been the most popular app using drawers, and  
> its use encouraged other UI designers to follow suit.  The problem  
> for us, of course, is that drawers are platform-specific, so if we  
> use them we need to figure out how to display the same information  
> without them for the majority of our customers using all other OSes.
>
> This move by Apple is most welcome:  every OS uses splitter panes  
> widely, and they're easy to implement in Rev on all of them.
>
> Apple has "rejoined the family of nations" with this move, and  
> while I've managed to avoid the drawers conundrum thus far at last  
> I'm confident I won't need to bother thinking about it at all.
>
> Coupled with the coming two-button mouse, Apple is making our work  
> supporting their OS easier and easier....
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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