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Portability Guide


Defining Your Design Goals

Each platform requires a different design to be most effective. Therefore, it is important to define strong design goals, then resolve any competition between the goals.

The same application might have to run on different platforms. For example, a factory might need to run the same application on each of the various kinds of workstations on the factory floor. In this case, the priority is consistency across platforms. By contrast, if you sell your application to different customers, and each customer uses only one kind of workstation, the priority is the application’s native look and feel.

When defining your design goals, consider the following:


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