The AppleWorks UI was kind of an incoherent mess, stuck halfway between the Platinum and Aqua UIs. You can actually see elements of this in the screenshot -- th

The AppleWorks UI was kind of an incoherent mess, stuck halfway between the Platinum and Aqua UIs. You can actually see elements of this in the screenshot -- the ruler in the word processor window is a relic of Platinum, with gray controls and bitmapped text, whereas the window frame and menu bars are more of an Aqua thing. (Except for the AppleScript menu, which is a Platinum-era icon again.) Then there's the "Button Bar", which was an entirely idiosyncratic element added to the OS X version of AppleWorks... Much of this is due to the history of AppleWorks -- it was a Carbon conversion of ClarisWorks, which dated back to 1991. Parts of the UI -- like that ruler -- are essentially unchanged from version 1.0.