[thelist] Site check please....
Ian Anderson
ian at zstudio.co.uk
Thu Apr 13 18:46:15 CDT 2006
Jay Blanchard wrote:
> :) I like them hanging down and will probably do something (using the
> sliding door CSS) to pretty them up. I do think that it shakes up things
> a bit. If this is an 'abuse' of UI convention, so be it. And not to
> start a holy war, but which UI convention? Is there really a UI
> convention? As a software guy with over 20 years under his belt I have
> read the Zeldman's (and others et. al.) of the world...and they can't
> even agree on convention.
Well, I uphold your right to do it the way you want, of course.
Nitpicking perhaps, but the academic point here is that conventions are
- more or less by definition - not the subject of debate, agreement or
declaration, but simply are the established way of doing something.
Given that yardstick, I think yes, there is a UI convention for tabs
that appear in the way I described.
It is, of course, your prerogative to follow or flout those conventions,
and of course to question whether the convention is flawed. Personally,
I think it's a damn useful one. In UI terms, using a widget for
something other than its normal use is a mistake. In UI terms, making a
widget look other than its normal appearance is a mistake.
But this is academic, and a relatively minor niggle.
Cheers!
Ian
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