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{{Short description|Aspect of software design related to user interfaces}}(File:Look and Feel.jpg|thumb|Picture showing 4 different types of look and feel applied in software Verto)In software design, the look and feel of a graphical user interface comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces (the "look"), as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxes, and menus (the "feel"). The term can also refer to aspects of a non-graphical user interface (such as a command-line interface), as well as to aspects of an API â mostly to parts of an API that are not related to its functional properties. The term is used in reference to both software and websites.WEB,weblink What is the "Look and Feel" of a Website?, November 21, 2013, "MEMBERWIDE">- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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In widget toolkits
Contrary to operating system user interfaces, for which look and feel is a part of the product identification, widget toolkits often allow users to specialize their application look and feel, by deriving the default look and feel of the toolkit, or by completely defining their own. This specialization can go from skinning (that only deals with the look, or visual appearance of the graphical control elements) to completely specializing the way the user interacts with the software (that is, the feel).The definition of the look and feel to associate with the application is often done at initialization, but some Widget toolkits, such as the Swing widget toolkit that is part of the Java API, allow users to change the look and feel at runtime (see Pluggable look and feel).Some examples of Widget toolkits that support setting a specialized look and feel are:- XUL (XML User Interface Language): The look and feel of the user interface can be specialized in a CSS file associated with the XUL definition files. Properties that can be specialized from the default are, for example, background or foreground colors of widgets, fonts, size of widgets, and so on.
- Swing supports specializing the look and feel of widgets by deriving from the default, another existing one, creating one from scratch, or, beginning with J2SE 5.0, in an XML property file called synth (skinnable look and feel).
Lawsuits
Some companies try to assert copyright of trade dress over their look and feel.The Broderbund v. Unison (1986) case was an early software copyright case that attempted to apply U.S. copyright law to the look and feel presented by a software product.In 1987 Lotus sued Paperback Software and Mosaic for copyright infringement, false and misleading advertising, and unfair competition over their low-cost clones of 1-2-3, VP Planner and Twin, and sued Borland over its Quattro spreadsheet.NEWSWEEK >DATE=AUGUST 27, 1990, John ScwartzMore recent reactions
In 2012 and 2014, Apple Inc. has filed lawsuits against competing manufacturers of smartphones and tablet computers, claiming that those manufacturers copied the look and feel of Apple's popular iPhone and iPad products.MAGAZINE,weblink Samsung vs. Apple: And The Winner Is..., Forbes, Derek Broes, 2011-09-24, 2015-08-13, WEB,weblink Round two: Apple and Samsung suit up for another billion dollar patent war, The Verge, Josh Lowensohn, March 31, 2014, 2015-08-13,In APIs
An API, which is an interface to software which provides some sort of functionality, can also have a certain look and feel. Different parts of an API (e.g. different classes or packages) are often linked by common syntactic and semantic conventions (e.g. by the same asynchronous execution model, or by the same way object attributes are accessed). These elements are rendered either explicitly (i.e. are part of the syntax of the API), or implicitly (i.e. are part of the semantics of the API).See also
- Design language
- Lotus "look and feel" lawsuit
- Skeuomorph
- Structure, sequence and organization
- Trade dress
References
{{Reflist}}External links
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120102154402weblink">Java Look and Feel collection
- The Java Tutorials: Modifying the Look and Feel
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