{"id":1700,"date":"2006-09-13T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T23:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1964"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:39:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:39:48","slug":"re-showtime-sorta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/13\/re-showtime-sorta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Showtime, sorta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codepoetry.net\/2006\/09\/12\/itunes_7_0\">codepoet<\/a> has got right what I wanted to say about the iTunes 7 interface:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I do like how it looks as a finished product, but it doesn&#8217;t make me feel like I&#8217;m using a Mac at all. It looks like the new iTunes Store does, right down to the scroll bars and buttons.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason for this that I can put forth is that they needed one unified interface for both Mac, Windows, and the iTS and we thus have this new concept. It&#8217;s interesting, and it&#8217;s not entirely unusable, but it&#8217;s kind of annoying to have this iconic Mac application turned into a bastion of wishy-washy cross-platform interface design, from a place of pure principle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, they tried to make something both Mac OS X-like and Windows XP-like, and at the same time abstract it out into a distinct iTS look. Which in turn was probably inspired by Dashboard widgets. If so, they&#8217;ve pulled it off quite well. At least in the main window; preferences and popup menus use the native UI, I suppose because users might get (more) confused.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this means that the new UI should not be used as a guide or inspiration for other applications. Or websites for that matter; I imagine Apple&#8217;s lawyers will be very zealous in their defense of the iTS theme\/platform&#8217;s look &amp; feel.<\/p>\n<p>I just realized iTunes is slowly morphing out of being just another application; instead it&#8217;s becoming an emulator running the iTunes\/Store platform. Inside a window, just like Virtual PC or Parallels. Interesting. (This paragraph actually surprised me while I watched myself typing it out <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/>.) I wonder if other hybrid desktop\/web multiplatform apps will follow this course&#8230; not that I can think of any right now, hm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The codepoet has got right what I wanted to say about the iTunes 7 interface: I do like how it looks as a finished product, but it doesn&#8217;t make me feel like I&#8217;m using a Mac at all. It looks like the new iTunes Store does, right down to the scroll bars and buttons. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-software","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}