Tog Takes on Mac OS X 10.3

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Posted by pudge on Wednesday January 14, 2004 @05:50AM from the go-get-em-tog dept.

Rick Zeman writes "Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini, founder of Apple's Human Interface Group years ago, has finally pointed his electrons to Mac OS X 10.3. He's been dormant for while, and hasn't said anything since the early days of Mac OS X. His new articles include 'Panther: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' and 'The Top Nine Reasons why the Dock Sucks,' all coming from A Guy Who Knows."

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Re:Finder by oscast · 2004-01-14 05:53 · Score: 1, Funny

When did Microsoft get a finder Window?
Slashdotted... by signingis · 2004-01-14 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny

That's what you get for talking bad about OS X. Punkass.

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Re:They should've never been let go by pheared · 2004-01-14 05:59 · Score: 2, Funny

But how can you argue with lickability. Adept tongues are valuable assets.
Re:Mirror by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 05:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Unfortunately, now you appear to be slashdotted. Smooth.
Hmmmm by NDPTAL85 · 2004-01-14 06:09 · Score: 1, Funny

So I take it the Mac community FORGOT to send Tog the memo that his views on UI design are wholly irrelevant and have been for some years now?

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Re:If the dock had been introduced back in the day by phrasebook · 2004-01-14 06:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Sigh. System 6! I love you!
Re:The Dock Sucking, and how it doesn't suck. by Phrogz · 2004-01-14 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny

That's the thing about HCI people. They're part of an entire field devoted to telling you that your opinion is wrong.

Or, as the joke goes:

"Give an HCI person a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach an HCI person how to fish, and he'll give you a Visio diagram detailing why your way is all wrong." :)
Re:Two simple changes to improve the dock by Bingo+Foo · 2004-01-14 06:48 · Score: 4, Funny

making the dock affect the actual item makes it dangerously powerful.
Not to mention the fact that if the critics were to succeed and actually strike down the Dock, it would become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

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Re:Finder and it's big problem by misterjingles · 2004-01-14 06:58 · Score: 2, Funny

It is pretty sad that you call yourself a "power user" but you can't even figure out how to turn off the Finder's hiding of files.
Re:Two simple changes to improve the dock by prockcore · 2004-01-14 07:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, that was sure intuitive!
Re:Finder by theWrkncacnter · 2004-01-14 07:36 · Score: 2, Funny

I think the main reason is because steve thinks it looks cool.

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Feeding Frenzy by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 07:39 · Score: 4, Funny

It's cool to see Mac zealots turning on each other!
Re:If the dock had been introduced back in the day by shotfeel · 2004-01-14 07:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, you should have heard me when Sys 7 came out!

What the heck do we need all this eye candy for? 3D buttons just soak up CPU cycles and don't do anything useful...
Re:Finder by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 08:10 · Score: 1, Funny

Or - if the sidebar is too narrow for your taste, you can make it larger by dragging the bottom lip all the way up past your nose, eyes, blocking your vision, accross your forehead, up and over, to the small of your spine. (This handy tip came from http://www.maxishits.com)