[GUI] Proposal Proposal: haskell-gui addendum to haskell standard

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:48:32 +0100
Peter Achten <peter88@cs.kun.nl> wrote:

> Similar to icons in buttons: add 
>  an attribute to specify the icon in a button and if the platform does
>  not support it, you don't show it. No scrapping needed; good set of
>  attributes and semantics needed.

I agree on this position, which has not been mentioned until now in this
discusion. But the developer must be aware of this, maybe with a
particular naming convention on non-universal features, so one can
safely write a program, not using these features, and know that it will
look good on other OS'es without the need to test it.

Imagine if one does not know that buttons don't show images on OSX and
writes an applications with only images in buttons. On a mac it would
look like a ridicolous empty-button joke :)

Vincenzo

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