Re: [Osx-nutters] iTunes 7, yet another look‽

[Patrick Coskren]

On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:

> On 14/09/2006, at 6:53 AM, Google Kreme wrote:
>
>> Overall I like the look of the new sidebar and the app in general.
>>
>> The scrollbars, on the other hand..
>
> You guys are missing the point. Every interface change Apple makes  
> seems to point more towards getting rid of bit-maps for anything  
> other than icons. Why would they do this?
>
> To make sure that it's as easy as possible to vectorise (is that a  
> word?) the interface.
>
> Resolution independent interface.

Huh.  Intriguing idea.

Do you suppose the existing scrollbars would be that hard to  
vectorize, though?  I guess you don't want to deal with a lot of  
compositing on the scrollbar, and it's got that background pattern.   
Hmm.

-Patrick