Re: [NTLK] What the Newton "essence" is? - WAS: "Upgrading NIE" (the Newton is nearly dead)

I am drooling over this!

I will need to read through it more thoroughly, but so far seems to
be something we should definitely not forget about.

Thanks a bunch Victor, I guess I should have looked around a bit
more. It is indeed a shame that such standards are no longer kept. I
think the newton, as well as more idealistic versions of Mac OS, were
more usable because of their following to standards such as these.

Ben

On Jun 5, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Victor Rehorst wrote:

> Ben Wojtyna wrote:
>> Apple was formerly known for having a great set of user interface
>> guidelines, though as one can see now, that has rapidly deteriorated
>> with the introduction of various amounts of pin-striping and brushed
>> metal.
>
> However the Newton pre-dates the pin brushed metal striping
> whatever look,
> because there actually is a Newton User Interface Guidelines document:
>
> http://www.unna.org/unna/apple/documentation/developer/
> UserInterfaceGuidelinesOS2.0.pdf
>
> (My wife and I just got iPods, and she was looking forward to using
> iTunes on
> Windows. Why? She'd like her next machine to be a Mac and
> according to
> those new Apple ads, all of the iApps all work the same! Tongue
> firmly in
> cheek.)
>
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