Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Dec 2006 11:16 UTC, submitted by bababooie
"The IndieHIG Wiki is a place where developers and UI designers can come together to create a new set of Human Interface Guidelines to supplement Apple's guidelines. Apple has neglected to update their HIG with modern UI designs and controls, so developers have been forced to replicate these UI elements on their own to keep their applications from looking dated. Since each developer has slightly different implementations of these elements, it has resulted in a fairly inconsistent look and feel for Mac OS users." Meanwhile, for the first time in over three months, Apple is asking its developer community to begin testing and providing feedback on a forthcoming update to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
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Member since:2006-03-14
I did point out that Firefox has updated the menus, I guess I was thinking of a really old pre-1.0 version. My bad. There was a time when I did notice that cross-platform applications tried to keep their menus consistent across both OSes. Oh well, no big deal now.
P.S.
VS does give you a default pre-made menu if you created a new project using the project wizard. This isn't something new, I just fired up Visual C++ 6.0 (cerca 1998).
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2005-11-10
I'm sorry but that is just innaccurate. I just downloaded Firefox 1.0 for Mac and Preferences is in the Application menu where it should be. When you create a program in XCode, a default menu layout is provided for you (no such thing in VS) with the Application, Edit, Window and Help menu. In general, and overal, Mac applications have far less menu inconsistancies than Windows counterparts - fact.