Support for Apple Extensions

[Christopher Brown]

There is no "one size fits all" answer, however, with Swing in
maintenance mode (and the current integration issues), and JavaFX
being consumer oriented with partial reach (not compatible with most
smartphone/tablet devices, when this area is addressed more and more
by HTML5), our more sober business applications are turning to SWT
(not in all cases, but it's a trend).

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Christopher


On 6 July 2013 01:20, Stephen Winnall <steve at winnall.ch> wrote:
> I almost agree. Except that Apple plays around with the look, but not with the feel.  I think the two need to be distinguished.
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> Steve
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> On 05.07.2013, at 22:12, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> A native look and feel is a secondary issue.   Even Apple plays around with
>> the look and feel.  For instance the "pro" apps like Final Cut Pro, have a
>> very diferent look and feel from the "regular" apps, and nobody cares.
>> Caspian and Modena will only bug a small number of the die hard Mac
>> purists, compared to the big things like not having a screen menu bar or a
>> proper Application menu, open events etc..
>> Other features mentioned like the notification of the computer sleeping,
>> putting files in the trash, etc. are all things that should have
>> cross-platform APIs since they are concepts that are common to Windows and
>> Linux as well.  I would much rather see a supported cross-platform API that
>> just does the right thing on the current platform than to have to code OS
>> specific things.  I think that is were the Orcale man hours need to be
>> focused, and let the community continue to do things like AquaFX to handle
>> the rest..
>>
>> Scott