Metacard menu?

[Richard Gaskin]

Shari wrote:

> I even ran tests using the various lookAndFeel options, which are
> supposed to emulate the other platforms, are they not?

In appearance only, and there's no way to see OS X-native appearances on
other platforms (nor, I suspect, wil there be one for XP-native appearances
should MC support that).

> Based on what I've been told about Metacard's capabilities, this
> should be sufficient.

Yes and no.  Yes, to the degree that your apps don't break.  But a
detaol-oriented developer like you will want the direct experience of
working in OS X sooner or later, just as you'd want to understand the
Windows experience firsthand to design apps that excel there.

If you've used the traditional Mac OS for several years, OS X will seem very
alien to you.  It's a truly strange beast, but one which benefits us
multi-plat developers in small ways by reducing some of the Mac-specific
behaviors that differ from other OSes.

In addition to file type extensions, window layering is a good example.