On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Alexander Lamaison <awl03@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:07:08 -0400, Gottlob Frege wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Alexander Lamaison <awl03@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
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.
Funny, I had exactly these apps in mind when I wrote that comment. ;-) The look like the've been written in Flash!
Which ones? I mostly worked on the Digital Video and Audio Apps (Premiere, After Effects, etc). Of course parts of those UIs *were* written in Flash (but just small parts).
Sorry, been on holiday.
One that comes to mind because I just used it is the installer that Adobe seem to use now. I'm not criticising Photoshop etc. They do a good job of trying to look native and I'm sure they have their reasons for not actually using native controls. However, generally it's hard to simulate it well.
Especially with setup's like mine as I use a dark theme on XP, so when I see some light theme Vista'ish looking program, it looks *really* poor in quality...