From: lucsky@... (Luc Heinrich)
Date: 2003-09-29T04:52:57+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI for MacOS X?

Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:

> Not entirely true -- people have managed to port GUI stuff to 
> multiple platforms.

Of course, but...

> The problem is that when you're doing a cross-platform GUI, you end 
> up limiting yourself to the things that are common to all the 
> platforms.

....as you just said, using a cross-platform GUI either limits you to a
lowest common denominator, or makes you introduce concepts and/or
abstractions non native to some platforms.

There is more than just windows and widgets to a GUI, and while you
might be able to end up with a lowest common denominator that *looks*
pretty good, you are likely to also end up with a lowest common
denominator that *feels* terrible on at least one platform.

So yeah, depending on your requirements, you might find that using a
lowest common denominator which will look or feel like crap on at least
one platform is acceptable. As far as I am concerned, there is no such
things as cross-platform GUIs :)

-- 
Luc Heinrich - lucsky@mac.com