If you check newer Microsoft applications such as Internet Explorer 7 and 8,
and Windows Explorer in Windows Vista and Windows 7, I believe you'll find
that there is very much a defined search bar standard on Windows.
You can even find a nice example of a cross-platform program that respects
the platform-specific look of the search box for both Windows and Mac OS X
in the cross-platform email app Postbox, which is a bit of a remix of
Thunderbird.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Stephen Dodd <stephen@transcena.com>
wrote:
> Yes, but don't we Mac users know better? ;)
>
> Even if modified visually for Windows, etc, you'd still want the magnifying
> glass popup menu plus the X is a nice courtesy.
>
> Given the growing prevalence of rounded search bars on the web (i.e.
> http://popurls.com/) , combined with a lack of defined search bar standard
> on Windows, I suspect a Windows app could get away with a rounded bar.
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"The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and
mutually antagonistic classes -- a small minority that plays with
ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that
finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them."
-- H. L. Mencken
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