Can I Get a Hallelujah?

[steve harley]

they whom i call Roger Howard wrote:
> Don't know about the Windows controls though... again, the platform seems
> more like the Adobe Virtual Machine than OSX or Windows to me.

and so it has been for several years -- the way i think of it is 
Adobe has made a platform out of its apps, and that platform 
happens to be hosted by Windows or Mac OS X at the moment; the 
idea being that should Windows and Mac OS X both fail, Photoshop 
could live on ...

this is most visible in all the custom controls used, but a lot 
of the underlying technology, too, is custom (e.g. the font 
loading & rendering engines); in the last 5 years, though, Adobe 
has been slow to add core UI features to various apps; e.g. on 
InDesign CS, there aren't contextual menus for items in palettes, 
and in Acrobat 6 shift-scroll doesn't horizontally scroll (these 
are the versions i use, so i'm not sure what might have changed)