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ipad anyone?
patrickl:
--- Quote from: protokatie on April 05, 2010, 10:35:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 05, 2010, 05:57:38 pm ---Yeah, I saw the Windows Mobile 7 demo and with that I was also wondering if you could switch all those ridiculous animations off. Why do I need to wait for a menu to slide into place?
People whine how their devices are so slow and then they are happy that designers actually make stuff go even slower with these swishy swashy user interfaces.
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That is done to hide load times. It is a pretty common "feature" and has been for more than a decade. I remember in the win 3.11 days that the menus were stored on the Hdd until you clicked on a menu. I could actually hear the hdd clicking away to get just the small bit of text + whatnot simply for menus.
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No it's not.
I'll agree that technically animations could "hide" a delay, but in reality they simply don't.
What is happening is that it's animating the menu that it already retrieved. If it simply displays it instead of sliding it in then it would be faster.
RayB:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 05, 2010, 06:01:02 pm ---Oh BTW the biggest question on everybodies mind is of course ... will it blend?
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Pretty impressive at 0:38-0:44. The thing is is smashed and bent into a curve yet you can see the screen still works and stuff is functioning!!
@Prototakie: The <video> tag is HTML5 which isn't yet "approved" and ready to go. So no doubt it will come when the standard is finalized.
Level42:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 05, 2010, 05:57:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Blanka on April 05, 2010, 02:18:50 am ---- Too much iCandy. Please pay us back killed time on sweeping pages, zooming dock icons, rotating orientation switches, fancy photoalbum zooms. Make a "don't steal my time with fancy stuff" button in the preferences.
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Yeah, I saw the Windows Mobile 7 demo and with that I was also wondering if you could switch all those ridiculous animations off. Why do I need to wait for a menu to slide into place?
People whine how their devices are so slow and then they are happy that designers actually make stuff go even slower with these swishy swashy user interfaces.
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If I were you, I'd go back to good old MS-Dos. Get rid of all those ridiculous windows !
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Level42 on April 08, 2010, 12:59:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 05, 2010, 05:57:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Blanka on April 05, 2010, 02:18:50 am ---- Too much iCandy. Please pay us back killed time on sweeping pages, zooming dock icons, rotating orientation switches, fancy photoalbum zooms. Make a "don't steal my time with fancy stuff" button in the preferences.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, I saw the Windows Mobile 7 demo and with that I was also wondering if you could switch all those ridiculous animations off. Why do I need to wait for a menu to slide into place?
People whine how their devices are so slow and then they are happy that designers actually make stuff go even slower with these swishy swashy user interfaces.
--- End quote ---
If I were you, I'd go back to good old MS-Dos. Get rid of all those ridiculous windows !
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I do like the Windows 95 style of interface best. With all animations switched off. No "aqua" and swishing stuff for me.
I'm obviously not alone since Windows still comes with this option of a "classic" interface style. Especially in corporate environments where for people who use their computer to work on rather than for web browsing and picture viewing.
shmokes:
The Windows 7 taskbar is so many lightyears beyond Windows 95 it makes me want to cut somebody's arm off.
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