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Why does Apple now have three different window control styles? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20635/Screenshots/r3da.png Only three? That makes very consistent inte
by rimantas 16y ago
Why does Apple now have three different window control
styles? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20635/Screenshots/r3da.png
Only three? That makes very consistent interface then.
Why are there back buttons ("like a browser") but you can't
right hand click to get the contextual drop down?
Back buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern. Contextual drop down? Not that common. Even Safari does not have it. Neither does Opera on OS X.
The navigation (Featured, Top Charts, etc) are so far away from the
other controls (Back and Forward) its insanely awkward to use.
Jus like on every web page? Does not cause much trouble though.
- pclark 16y agoSeriously... Only three? That makes very consistent interface then. How is three good? Why are we applauding that, when, last week, Apple had two styles? I don't use Windows much but I'm pretty sure 99% of all the applications use the same window elements and style (this one: http://media.arstechnica.com/images/windows7/Peek%20-%20Before.png http://media.arstechnica.com/images/windows7/Peek%20-%20Befo...) Back buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern. Contextual drop down? Not that common. Even Safari does not have it. Neither does Opera on OS X. It isn't right click, its click and hold. Same difference. Safari has it. App store doesn't. Jus like on every web page? Does not cause much trouble though. Lets compare Safari to App Store in terms of distance... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20635/Screenshots/1bwg.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20635/Screenshots/1bwg.png
- pmjordan 16y agoAperture (and probably the other pro tools) has yet another style (greyscale), actually, but that only reinforces your point. The various different teams within Apple seem to be pushing their UIs in wildly different directions recently. iTunes was one of the first with weird UI (the back button in the iTMS is horribly broken); iPhoto '11 behaves quite differently to iPhoto '09, and unlike any Apple app before it. Now the App Store.
- sausagefeet 16y ago99% of Mac apps use the same window elements and style too...
- achompas 16y agoWe're talking about Safari and iTunes--two of Apple's most frequently used apps. They might represent 1% of the app space, but they represent a large majority of the app usage space.
- rimantas 16y agoLets compare Safari to App Store in terms of distance... Not sure what are you comparing there. I was talking about navigation on the web page, which can be anywhere and its distance from browser's back and forward buttons. I wouldn't be surprised if iTunes store and now Mac App Store views are indeed rendered by WebKit.
- pmjordan 16y agoNeither does Opera on OS X. It does. Try it. Click and hold.
- webwright 16y ago"Back buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern." Apparently not common enough to warrant having a back button on the iPhone.
- schrototo 16y agoI'd argue that it's in fact not common enough to warrant a physical button, since there are many apps, especially games, that don't have this specific notion of "back". In my opinion, it's probably more confusing to have a button that sometimes does one thing and other times something else or even nothing.
- webwright 16y agoGiven the inconsistent behavior of the browser back button nowadays (with rich apps, lightboxes, etc), would advocate that we get rid of them?
- calloc 16y agoBack buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern. Contextual drop down? Not that common. Even Safari does not have it. Neither does Opera on OS X. Yes, right click doesn't exist, but click and hold certainly does in Safari give you an context menu to go back one or more. The same does not exist for the app store.
- danudey 16y agoContextual drop down? Not that common. Even Safari does not have it. Click and hold on the back or forward buttons and you get the drop-down.