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First of all Apple does not follow its HIG in many ways. But even aside from that, the HIG itself changes every few years, sometimes drastically such as the iOS
by sdegutis 7y ago
First of all Apple does not follow its HIG in many ways. But even aside from that, the HIG itself changes every few years, sometimes drastically such as the iOS 7 departure. And it takes many apps time to catch up. One example is Apple's own new Mac App Store which doesn't even allow selecting or copying text in app descriptions last I checked.
- saagarjha 7y agoThe Mac App Store is a fairly well known atrocity which might as well be a Catalyst app for how bad and out-of-place it is.
- leadingthenet 7y agoApple has definitely been shitting the bed on UI in the past few macOS releases.
- tomc1985 7y agoThe ability to copy text from UI labels was never part of the contract. Generally when that happens it was because the label control was some kind of textbox with most of the visual features disbled
- sdegutis 7y agoFrom Mac OS X 10.0, labels were simply text boxes with editable set to false, both being NSTextField, and when it seemed reasonable that the user might want to copy it, you used Interface Builder to mark it as selectable.