Strange, because Abobe products have always felt non-native to me. For
example, look at the way scrolling works in Acrobat on Windows. The
downarrow key moves in page units, rather than in line units. The Page Down
key stops at page boundaries instead of allowing the bottom of one page to
be visible with the top of the next, even if that means it scrolls only one
line. Acrobat's design is NOT the look and feel Windows/Word users are used
to. (The way it foils my reflexes drives me crazy.) Is that a conscious
decision to carry a different standard to Windows, or is it a consequence
of the cross-platform tools? If the latter, Adobe tools would seem to be a
counteraxample to your point, not an example.
-- Brian Marick, Reliable Software Technologies, http://www.rstcorp.com Testing essays and FAQs at http://www.rstcorp.com/marick/ Technical Editor of Software Testing and Quality Engineering, http://www.stqemagazine.com"Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion." -- Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620.