Java really doesn't 'require' one to have a browser, even. It requires a JIT or like concept to run the code (VM's included...). More and more, Java use will likely split into split camps. It is trivial, these days, to actually create an executable native code (machine code) java program. Modern compilers are beginning to include options for this at an increasing rate. I KNOW from experience that Metrowerks codewarrior tools give one this ability. On the other side, that same code can still be compiled into Java BC, and run with VM and JIT and the like. So, this is changing rapidly, and in the future we should see even more changes to bring Java more into the 'main stream' of programming, particularily when all the assorted threading and timing and other difficulties are sorted out... Brian
There are other cues as well -- position, like you said, sounds for mouse_over, shapes of the gumdrops, or shapes ingrained with the coloured images(as we are all used to). Tooltip like mouse_overs as well.
Its been a while since I read up on the HIG, but I'm pretty sure that these buttons break it. I believe buttons without text are required to have a symbol that can be clearly recognized as the function of the button, however abstract.
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Java really doesn't 'require' one to have a browser, even. It requires a JIT or like concept to run the code (VM's included...). More and more, Java use will likely split into split camps. It is trivial, these days, to actually create an executable native code (machine code) java program. Modern compilers are beginning to include options for this at an increasing rate. I KNOW from experience that Metrowerks codewarrior tools give one this ability. On the other side, that same code can still be compiled into Java BC, and run with VM and JIT and the like. So, this is changing rapidly, and in the future we should see even more changes to bring Java more into the 'main stream' of programming, particularily when all the assorted threading and timing and other difficulties are sorted out... Brian
There are other cues as well -- position, like you said, sounds for mouse_over, shapes of the gumdrops, or shapes ingrained with the coloured images(as we are all used to). Tooltip like mouse_overs as well.
Its been a while since I read up on the HIG, but I'm pretty sure that these buttons break it. I believe buttons without text are required to have a symbol that can be clearly recognized as the function of the button, however abstract.
--Brian
I just want to take this opportunity to thank all the new members of the COQO for joining up. Welcome Everybody!
Reverend Brian J. Ackermann.