The Non-Maximizing Maximize Button:
That’s my problem with Apple’s non-maximizing maximize button. Allowing users to maximize any window to a monitor has its problems, to be sure. But Apple’s method of forcing users to deal with more windows by preventing maximization is not good user interface design. It is fundamentally and deeply flawed. Users don’t want [...]
Also tagged ComputingIn Tiger, when I put an open Mail message into the background, the Delete button disables itself. None of the other buttons do.
Bizarre.
Also tagged TigerTim Bray isn’t so sure he likes Tiger. And I’d agree, but with enough caveats that I thought a blog post would be worthwhile.
OS X has gone through five major revisions since I’ve been using it. It had more before, but since I didn’t use them I don’t really know about them, and won’t comment [...]
Also tagged Cocoa, Computing, Programming, Technology, TigerSo maybe setting my default browser to the WebKit nightly wasn’t so great an idea…
Also tagged Computing, The InternetSo there’s talk all over the web about Apple moving to Intel processors, but one thing I couldn’t find was the fate of AltiVec. AltiVec, or the Velocity Engine, is the part of the G4 and G5 that does the heavy lifting when you need giant numbers crunched: it is the reason why G5s have [...]
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