First of all, fantastic work. Developers as passionate, brave and talented as you are the ones who move this whole platform forward and eventually change paradigms.

The other guy was unnecessarily harsh and offered zero constructive criticism, so I'm left wondering what is it that he could have disliked so much. I think if there's one thing that might strike as a bit jarring on those iPhone screenshots it would be the light green tint. Why not gray or white? Menus are at a lower hierarchy than the actual content and the use of color makes them stand out too much based on everyone's years of experience with them

I like the way it looks. The thing with design is that there will usually be someone who thinks it's ugly.

And I think that's okay. Everyone's aesthetic sense is a bit different. Nobody's going to like everything you do.

I do think that the ordinal poster's criticism could have been delivered less rudely, though.

It looks much better there, and I think there are three factors for that: one, that it is interactive rather than a static screenshot; two, that those examples are on larger screens where the menu is not taking up a substantial fraction of the screen, and so the curved two-box outline is taking up less of the screen; and three, the colours: the screenshot I remarked on (and on which I stand firm in my judgement) is light-themed, with a strange tint that doesn’t feel right, and which is rendered far worse by the extra smudgy colour coming through from the text selection underneath. I think I would find that same screenshot in a dark theme quite acceptable, though probably still a tad odd due to the shapes involved.

Counterpoint, I genuinely think it looks beautiful and I'm really impressed by it.

Definitely ignore that guy. While I personally would not use an iOS device for anything other than communicating, consuming media and entertainment (and have had just about every iOS device Apple sold, but I do my "real" work on an MBP), I really appreciate the thought you put in to this and double appreciate that you shared the thinking AND the code.

Don’t listen to him man, guys like you are what makes the Apple ecosystem so nice for users. You actually care for crafting an experience that belongs to the platform its on. Kudos!

Ah, nevermind that guy. I really like how Codea looks, and I think the iOS Menu looks great. More importantly, it feels great to use.

I agree, but that's contradictory to the quote.

> The result is a beautiful menu bar on an iPhone app