Re: Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes)

[Alan West]

Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Anyway, differences in interface *philosophy* cannot be solved by 
> using any kind of common single UI description. It does not matter if 
> it is 'platform independent' or not. And i think that the phrase 
> 'platform independet' is really inappropriate in connection with 'user 
> interface'.
>
> Excuse me if it souded like flaming, I did not meant it that way.
>
> Stefan 

I think the idea of a platform independant UI description is very 
possible, one of the things that is often different between platforms is 
sizes of standard controls, borders, spacing etc... if the UI 
description avoided specific sizes but instead described a size such as; 
normal, small, medium, large, xlarge, and as a last resort percentages, 
then maybe each backend could relate these sizes to their platform 
specific style, even on PDAs.

Alan