![]() ![]() We have argued that if it wasn’t for the massive Web revolution, would non-Microsoft vendors (read: Mac OS X) be in the situation there are now? Or would they have followed in the wake of Atari, Amiga and BeOS? When the Web happened, suddenly the interesting actions that people wanted to do on a computer were dominated by the global scale of the Web (Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, eBay, etc). In fact, the Web itself is a fantastic cross platform success. probably TOO far in the other direction ) Flash is an example that is very much cross platform and that community very much went the “every app will have its own UI”…. That doesn’t mean that cross platform can’t work. ![]() We have all seen many platforms on top of hosts that don’t feel right and don’t look good. Ben, Jasper Potts, and others fought for such a look and feel in Nimbus but a lot of time had gone by. It turns out that this probably wasn’t the right approach, and either a) Use SWT to use the real OS components or b) create a great looking l&f that is different to any one host, but natural and fantastic to use. That team worked tirelessly for many years to try to get the look and feels to be as exacting to their hosts as possible. Swing gets bashed because a) it didn’t take off, and b) people always saw Swing apps as ugly and great examples of the uncanny valley. There is some validity to some of this, but I also wanted to discuss the other side too.
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