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by kitsunesoba
3969 days ago
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It's not so obvious on Windows, but a thing written with non-native tool kits stick out sorely on OS X simply because AppKit is so much more detailed, nuanced, and in some cases functional than the average Windowsesque UI toolkit. It's incredibly rare for cross platform apps to get this right because they more often than not take the "lets do everything ourselves" route and set "basic windowslike" as the goal. In other words, lowest common denominator. Point in case: every Cocoa text field has emacs keybinds, spellcheck, dictionary/thesaurus/Wikipedia lookup, and more baked into them. The ubiquity of these features between applications on the platform is excellent and rather jarring when it's suddenly not there (as is often the case with cross platform software). |
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That's not fundamental to portability, though. There's no reason both GTK+ and Qt couldn't use those same text fields.