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Before everyone gets too excited over this, admittedly very cool technical achievement, how will this affect the look and feel of apps making use of it? Games a
by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
Before everyone gets too excited over this, admittedly very cool technical achievement, how will this affect the look and feel of apps making use of it? Games always tend to use completely custom UIs, so this will be a neat tool at the disposal of game devs. But how will business apps feel? Will text boxes be CocoaTouch-based or some Adobe-proprietary text box?
These things tend to matter in achieving a consistent look and feel to users. I've never preferred Java apps on either Windows or Mac OS X to native ones, primarily because they are only ever 95% of the way there in providing consistent look and feel. There's always something that is just off ever so slightly.
- alex_c 17y agoEven if CS5 won't include it at launch, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before there will be a full-fledged library of "iPhone-like" controls available. Besides, Apple can be as anal as they want about interface consistency before they approve something to the App Store, and they're probably not thrilled by this. They can use the interface excuse to great effect if they choose, to neutralize the effectiveness of this tool by simply rejecting many Flash apps.