On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:48:32 +0100
Peter Achten
Similar to icons in buttons: add an attribute to specify the icon in a button and if the platform does not support it, you don't show it. No scrapping needed; good set of attributes and semantics needed.
I agree on this position, which has not been mentioned until now in this discusion. But the developer must be aware of this, maybe with a particular naming convention on non-universal features, so one can safely write a program, not using these features, and know that it will look good on other OS'es without the need to test it. Imagine if one does not know that buttons don't show images on OSX and writes an applications with only images in buttons. On a mac it would look like a ridicolous empty-button joke :) Vincenzo -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. [Gandhi]