Striped Background in OS X Revisited

[Scott Kane]

----- Original Message ----- 

> Yeah, I tend to regrab the pattern with each OS X release.

Yup.  But very fiddly.  :-)

> If Apple keeps fading the stripes, it'll eventually return to Platinum. :)

LOL!!

> Expectations have indeed been lowered by sloppy developers, but I see 
> other people's laziness as our competitive advantage:  apply nothing more 
> than the discipline we learn from Day 1 designing for Mac OS, reading the 
> HIG and applying as appropriate, when we move our apps to Windows the 
> integrate better with Microsoft's work than some of our competitors who've 
> been there for years.

Indeed.  And your observation is a good one.  Microsoft always gave me the 
feeling that they were going to have a GUI too!  But we'll make it different 
enough to be different.  Plus the MDI concept has had a *huge* impact on 
Windows HIG and app's in general.  I was surprised Linux desktops are so 
similar to Windows and not Mac.  Though my main work is still on Windows 
boxes I really do find the Mac cleaner and tidier.  Kind of  comparing 
"class" and "ass".  <vbg>

> But of course cross-platform HIG adherence will only be pervasive in the 
> Rev community to the degree the tool makes it easy.  If folks have to jump 
> through hoops just to adopt conventions, must of their work will look out 
> of synch with modern conventions, reflecting badly on RunRev.

I agree.  One thing that does annoy me is a lack of decorations in modal 
dialogs under Windows with Rev app's.  I can fake it easy enough - but I 
wish I didn't have too.

> So for the benefit of RunRev Ltd and all of us, for your voting pleasure:
>
> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5186>

Will vote as soon as my ISP gets http working again (it seems to be down 
right now).

Scott