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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re^2: User interface
Summary: Windows, at least, DOES have a style guide.
Message-ID: <3367@rti.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 22:25:25 GMT
References: <5828@internal.Apple.COM> <499@tci.bell-atl.com>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <499@tci.bell-atl.com>, kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf) writes:
> [...] MS-Windows/PM (at least last
> time I worked with them -- about a year ago) did not do a style guide.
> Without a Style Guide, UI designers must guess at what the proper
> "feel" is.  Notice the groping that Mac developers go through when
> extending the UI.

A minor point in an otherwise good posting:

I have not dealt with the OS/2 PM, but certainly the Microsoft Windows
Toolkit DOES have a style guide, and has had for well over a year.  It's
possible that the toolkit you used a year ago was not up-to-date (I
don't have any copies of the earliest Windows toolkts).

						Bruce C. Wright