Important: ReactOs - HCI/UX

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cruonit
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Important: ReactOs - HCI/UX

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Intro
System developers tend not to mess with HCI/UX(hate it) but when you look at the IEEE/ACM guids for universitys its one of the fundamentals of software development/software engineering

The problem/Question
So we know that the target architecture for reactos is windows 2003 server but! what is the HCI/UX target version for the apps ?

as we can see:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... Server.png
was the first version of windows where microsoft started the transition from webforms to web inspired UI as seen in vista,7 and finally HTML5 UI in win8 (also in chrome and firefox settings), but the transition was very slow

Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines (UX Guide) for Windows 7 and Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=2695

Design begining of vista:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997506.aspx

Windows XP Visual Guidelines:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows ... 63466.aspx

Windows 95/2000
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/I ... elines.pdf
SomeGuy
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Re: Important: ReactOs - HCI/UX

Post by SomeGuy »

I assume you are just talking about the applications that are built and included with ReactOS. For the most part those currently follow the Windows 95/2000 user interface standards.

Most of the development focus is still on core components such as the kernel, so there doesn't appear to be any officially endorsed UI direction yet, other than it must implement the needed UI libraries to run Windows 2003 applications.

Currently ReactOS lacks a real clone of Microsoft Internet Explorer. It can embed a Gecko renderer in place of an embedded IE window, but it is a bad idea (and always has been a bad idea :ugeek: ) to develop an application that requires any part of Internet Explorer.

The "webification" of Windows really started back in 1998 with the release of IE 4 in order to give Microsoft an excuse to bundle IE with Windows and murder the competition. The only people who really liked webby applications work in marketing, and most of them have moved on to full screen apps that smoothly slide back and forth and do nothing else. :P
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