The blog poster in question is perhaps the type of person to think, "Blast! What are those extra pixels around my aliasing!?" However s/he has a point, because although people can disable the eye candy, there is a distinct psychological incentive to use the smoother, more technically advanced interface.
But eye candy has other, more harmful effects as well: one of the most notable is accessibility problems. You see, where experienced computer users like you and me see clearly defined windows, newbies see a perplexing maze of ever-changing L shapes and rectangles. With the boundaries between windows becoming transparent, that thin blue line between the elderly and a vertical learning curve becomes just that narrower.
Also, the disadvantage of eye candy is that it highlights areas where Microsoft UI programmers have really messed up. Notepad flickering in the Aero Glass interface: not pretty.
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The blog poster in question is perhaps the type of person to think, "Blast! What are those extra pixels around my aliasing!?" However s/he has a point, because although people can disable the eye candy, there is a distinct psychological incentive to use the smoother, more technically advanced interface.
But eye candy has other, more harmful effects as well: one of the most notable is accessibility problems. You see, where experienced computer users like you and me see clearly defined windows, newbies see a perplexing maze of ever-changing L shapes and rectangles. With the boundaries between windows becoming transparent, that thin blue line between the elderly and a vertical learning curve becomes just that narrower.
Also, the disadvantage of eye candy is that it highlights areas where Microsoft UI programmers have really messed up. Notepad flickering in the Aero Glass interface: not pretty.