Star Comparing Windows 7 & Snow Leopard Icons
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Sep 2009 17:43 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces Last week, Culf of Mac published an article showing off some of Snow Leopard's beautiful 512x512 icons, revealing some interesting tidbits about them you could only see when the icons are fully maximised. In this article, I compare some of Snow Leopard's icons to those of Windows 7, and you'll see while both operating systems have beautiful icons, there are some key differences between the styles of these icons. Note that this article contains some large images, so if you're on dial-up, you've been warned.
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RE[4]: Give me functional
by StephenBeDoper on Fri 11th Sep 2009 03:08 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Give me functional"
StephenBeDoper
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2005-07-06

It confuses me though that we're sitting at 2009 and neither Apple nor Microsoft have moved to SVG icons - something that was in use on SGI IRIX Indigo desktop almost a decade ago. There is no reason why the icons for the bundled command controls on both Windows and Mac OS X can't be replaced with SVG versions with no impact on compatibility since all the handling is sorted out behind the scenes and not the third party applications themselves.


There's an interesting article on the Haiku Icon Vector Format, describing some of the reasons they didn't go with SVG - it's an interesting read:

http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2006-11-06/icon_facts

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