Re: User interface elements (title bar, etc) does not conform
- From: "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <MillyS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 16:37:56 -0700
Um, because the Windows teams and the Office teams have different visions
that occasionally coincide but is not a requirement?
Yeah, I will stick with that answer.
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After furious head scratching, Aleatoric asked:
| umm (yeah), you might want to check the system requirements for
| Office 2007, which indicate that it is also targeted for XP (and
| Windows 2003). That means it should conform to the interface
| guidelines for those systems when it runs on those systems.
| Additionally, it doesn't appear to conform to the Vista interface,
| either, as it apparently does not conform to the window interface
| elements used by the rest of Vista.
|
| The problem is that Office has *never* fully complied with the
| so-called Windows interface guidelines, and there's not really any
| good reason for this nonconformance. What's the point in having
| guidelines and common controls, etc., if they're not going to be used
| by the flagship product?
|
| "matt" wrote:
|
|| umm this maybe because this is designed for a new OS - windows vista
|| isnt it
||
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|| "Aleatoric" wrote:
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||| I'm largely impressed with the functionality of the Office 2007
||| product beta, but there's on huge, glaring, major flaw: The title
||| bar and menus should conform to the theme/style that is in use for
||| the rest of the Windows applications. This nonsense of ignoring
||| your own interface and programming guidelines and presenting an
||| interface that is vastly different from the rest of the OS is
||| pretty lame. If you feel you MUST create something that doesn't fit
||| in with the rest of the OS, you should at the very least provide
||| the option to present a compatible interface as well.
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