8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
2:32 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Alexander Lamaison <awl03@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
Absolutely! I simply wouldn't touch a GUI library that didn't render native widgets. I'd be too embarrassed to release software that had an amateur look&feel.
Lots of Adobe software is written with non-native UI. Not typically described as amateur. What they have is a 'look' that tends to be somewhere between Mac and Windows, with some things possibly skinned per-paltform, but most of it with just an in between Adobe look. As long as it looks good, it doesn't need to be native. Note also that people are now accustomed to web sites - each has its own look and feel.