February 3, 2004
Lowering the (status) bar.
Nobody enjoys a fling of the muck at schizophrenic user interface conventions more than yours truly. And as a source of consistently fine editorial persnicketiness in this field, the likes of John Gruber cannot be questioned. However, it’s refreshing to see that other folks can get their collective widgets in a twist on par mit herrn Gruber. Other folks like Paul Sowden, who has discovered a wonderful nit to pick regarding Apple’s uniformly inconsistent formatting of window status bars in OS X. Indeed, why are even Apple’s own applications so confoundedly disparate in common elements such as this? I guess that’s why they’re referred to as human interface guidelines, and not human interface commandments.
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