To Use Stock UI, Or Not?

A Mac app should look and feel like a Mac app. A Windows app should look and feel like a Windows app. Or should they? Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing: Sadly, almost nobody uses Win32 scroll bars any more. Everybody uses frameworks that provide their own custom scroll bars. [...] Great, so by the time I learn about a shortcut for scroll bars (Shift+click), the ecosystem has fragmented so much that I can’t even rely on it working. Brent Simmons, Inessential: What I found should be no surprise: many of the apps people think look good are not using stock UI. [...] I’ve long been a devoted proponent of using stock Mac UI for, I always thought, good reasons: users are already familiar with that UI and it’s less work to create and update every year. I think those reasons (user familiarity and developer effort) may not stand up entirely. At least not these days. ~ Links: A Brief History of Windows Scroll Bar Shortcuts, by Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac…