Cycle wasting
Matt Neuburg of Tidbits has written Doing the Leopard Moan, a review of the new Mac OS X interface. While I mostly agree with his comments, I think he should have prefaced the article with the line… “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like”.
The title bar of a window is big and grey. The title bar of a window that isn’t frontmost is a lighter grey, which is backwards: surely it’s the frontmost window which should light up, not all the background windows?
Emphasis his. Matt it is you, surely, who has it arse-about. That is if you think the interface should emulate the real world. It’s called Aerial Perspective and man has been conveying the idea of distance to each other this way for about 5 hundred years or so.
