{"id":1661,"date":"2008-01-16T19:19:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/leopard-hig\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T23:19:08","slug":"leopard-hig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/leopard-hig\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard HIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple (no longer Aqua) <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/UserExperience\/Conceptual\/OSXHIGuidelines\/\">Human Interface Guidelines<\/a> have been updated (via <a href=\"http:\/\/waffle.wootest.net\/2008\/01\/16\/because-i-got-hig\/\">Jesper<\/a>). I suppose the main contributions, for people already follow the Mac interface, are the official terminology that it introduces&mdash;&ldquo;zero-width splitter,&rdquo; &ldquo;bottom bar&rdquo;, &ldquo;gradient button,&rdquo; &ldquo;capsule-style toolbar control,&rdquo;&#160;&ldquo;rectangular-style toolbar control,&rdquo; &ldquo;transparent panetc.&mdash;and the guidance about which enumerated constants and system-provided images are meant to correspond with which appearances. At least on a quick skim, it still seems to be much more about description than prescription or explanation. If you know what&rsquo;s available but want to know when to use what, the HIG probably isn&rsquo;t much help:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/UserExperience\/Conceptual\/OSXHIGuidelines\/XHIGWindows\/chapter_18_section_4.html\"><p>Use drawers only for controls that need to be accessed fairly frequently but that don&rsquo;t need to be visible all the time. This is in contrast to the criterion for a panel, which should be visible and available whenever its main window is in the top layer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple (no longer Aqua) Human Interface Guidelines have been updated (via Jesper). I suppose the main contributions, for people already follow the Mac interface, are the official terminology that it introduces&mdash;&ldquo;zero-width splitter,&rdquo; &ldquo;bottom bar&rdquo;, &ldquo;gradient button,&rdquo; &ldquo;capsule-style toolbar control,&rdquo;&#160;&ldquo;rectangular-style toolbar control,&rdquo; &ldquo;transparent panetc.&mdash;and the guidance about which enumerated constants and system-provided images are meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}