>Francois, I haven't done any UI for over 5 years, but if you want familiarity and acceptability, model your interfaces on something like Outlook. Most if not all of your customers will use it, at home if not at work, so it'll seem immediately comfortable and familiar. Then you can shrug and observe that MS spends millions of dollars to come up with functional UI standards for Windows apps, so of course your firm offers a professional compliant version rather than a colorful cartoon version. ;-)

Hummmm, You're right.

Im' a convinced user of the plain stuff from mozilla-foundation and lightware. Not used their stuff for years except office-2000, possibly oldish by current standards. However I should not forget MS UI still stand above competition when it comes to rich UIs.

Time for me to pay attention to their recent stuff including outlook.

Thanks

Frank