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History Of The NeXT Platform
ToothBrush writes "OSNews published an article about the BSD/Mach-based NeXT Platform, discussing its history and its capabilities back then. The article has lots of screenshots and it is generally a good introduction --of the once innovative platform-- for younger readers who are unaware of the inheritance that lead to Mac OS X."
As long as it's internal competition, and not complete downtreading of either OSs features.
The thing that introduced me and kept me on the mac was the UI of OS7.6.1 of all things, when I started doing prepress work. The consistency, the pure simplicity, and an OS that did what I wanted without me needing to think about the OS itself. That sounds awfully cliche, but it was all just -there-. I could design, draw, colour correct, print, network... no thinking of the OS needed, all my thinking could go on producing good work.
OSX 10.0 lost quite a few obvious things. They're slowly coming back, and not losing any of OSX's advantages either. It's shaping up well I think
In case anyone didn't know Window Maker is the free implementation of GNUstep. From the website "In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NEXTSTEP[tm] user interface." It's actually quite a nice lightweight window manger and runs great on older hardware (for which GNOME & KDE are much too bloated) and has a pretty good developement community.
When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost, you mourn for yourself. - Harpo Marx
My point was that the original HTML viewer didn't do a great deal.
Nor do any HTML viewers. I mean, come on... It reads laid out text and places images. The point is not that it does a lot, the point is that it is convenient (clickable links).
Many apps would do well to take that message to heart.