My hope is that when the Safari development team sees an issue with a site that has poorly coded pages, they contact the maintainer of the site rather than coding a work-around.
I just ordered a Yamaha CRW-F1ZEM for my new, old Blue & White PowerMac G3 from Mac Connection. Argh. Now what the heck am I supposed to get? Is there another drive out there that has the same high-speeds and Mt. Rainier support? Disc Tattoo was going to be cool as well.
How do you use that to explain away the very striking icons that third-party developers use for their applications?
I think it is a limitation of using vectors solely. I think that either getting the enormous detail you can get for free from a bitmap is either (a) not possible with strict vector images or (b) too expensive to render.
My biggest problem with SVG icons is that I haven't seen any with detail approaching the 128x128 icons that are used in Mac OS X. I'm not sure if it is just hard for people to create, or if it is an inherent limitation of the medium.
I suspect it is a limitation of the medium, but I would love to be proven wrong. Otherwise, I think Apple has the best solution.
...really need to concentrate on spelling people's names correctly. When they can't even spell John Carmack's name right, something is seriously wrong.
The beachball is displayed if the current window is not responding. You can mouse over the window of any other program (or window in another thread) and it'll disapear and you can get to work with that one while the other window chugs away at whatever it was doing (or in some cases until you force quit the application).
So, it's not a Beachball of Death. Maybe it is a Beachball of Partial Death.
I have a theory, too, when it comes to long-time Mac users. They've been stuck in a basically non multitasking environment for so long, they often get an overrated perception of their newer system's overall power in OS X. (Quite simply, their eyes are opened to how much more they can get accomplished on their new computer because things put in the background really do process in the background.) They forget that over on the "Intel" side of the fence, people have been doing this (and expecting it to work that way) ever since the days of Windows '95 and NT 3.5, not to mention all the Linux and BSD users).
I've actually heard a lot of them say that the don't like OS X's multi-tasking. They prefer the multi-tasking model of Classic Mac OS because the foreground application had the CPU almost dedicated to it.
I disagree, obviously, but I was just stating the fact that your assumption is incorrect.
Just to clarify. Omni Group hasn't commited to using WebCore or KHTML for OmniWeb 5. They have stated that it is a possibility in addition to the redesign of their display engine that had already begun.
I have a > year old iBook that I use a lot. I recently aquired a > 3 year old PowerMac G3 450Mhz that is now my main computer. It is very responsive in comparison to my iBook and 1Ghz Pentium machine at work.
Mozilla is too complex for most users. Phoenix is the only hope for unseating Internet Explorer on Windows.
I hope the Phoenix team creates a Mail and Address Book client to go along with it. Mozilla Calendar is already very nice. It looks like it is based off of iCal.
You're going to have to explain yourself here. They charge much less for most all of their products than their competitors. Their desktops are cheaper than those from Sun and SGI. The iBooks and PowerBooks compete very, very well with clone laptops. Final Cut Pro is far cheaper than AVID. The iApps are all free except for iMovie which is a steal at $49. AppleWorks has a reasonable price and is included with all iMacs and iBooks. Keynote is priced reasonably at $99. PowerPoint is expensive.
- market control
Explain. The only control I've seen them wield is as a pioneer of new technologies.
- FUD
Links?
- product tying
Such as?
- hiding software features
Examples?
- employee abuse
Links? Dave Hyatt doesn't seem to complain.
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You're assuming that I actually run XP.
I bet the files will need to have DRM turned on in them in order to be sharable via threedegrees.
I thought all of the XP drivers had to be blessed and certified by Microsoft? So, whose fault is it really?
My hope is that when the Safari development team sees an issue with a site that has poorly coded pages, they contact the maintainer of the site rather than coding a work-around.
I just ordered a Yamaha CRW-F1ZEM for my new, old Blue & White PowerMac G3 from Mac Connection. Argh. Now what the heck am I supposed to get? Is there another drive out there that has the same high-speeds and Mt. Rainier support? Disc Tattoo was going to be cool as well.
Focus follows pointer isn't a good idea when you have a global menu bar.
It could also be affected by language settings and other preferences, coul it not?
No, no, it's: once fooled, shame one me. twice fooled.. uh... uh.. a fool won't be fooled again.
How do you use that to explain away the very striking icons that third-party developers use for their applications?
I think it is a limitation of using vectors solely. I think that either getting the enormous detail you can get for free from a bitmap is either (a) not possible with strict vector images or (b) too expensive to render.
My biggest problem with SVG icons is that I haven't seen any with detail approaching the 128x128 icons that are used in Mac OS X. I'm not sure if it is just hard for people to create, or if it is an inherent limitation of the medium.
I suspect it is a limitation of the medium, but I would love to be proven wrong. Otherwise, I think Apple has the best solution.
...really need to concentrate on spelling people's names correctly. When they can't even spell John Carmack's name right, something is seriously wrong.
The beachball is displayed if the current window is not responding. You can mouse over the window of any other program (or window in another thread) and it'll disapear and you can get to work with that one while the other window chugs away at whatever it was doing (or in some cases until you force quit the application).
So, it's not a Beachball of Death. Maybe it is a Beachball of Partial Death.
I've actually heard a lot of them say that the don't like OS X's multi-tasking. They prefer the multi-tasking model of Classic Mac OS because the foreground application had the CPU almost dedicated to it.
I disagree, obviously, but I was just stating the fact that your assumption is incorrect.
Just to clarify. Omni Group hasn't commited to using WebCore or KHTML for OmniWeb 5. They have stated that it is a possibility in addition to the redesign of their display engine that had already begun.
Not everyone that uses Mozilla (or Opera, or Konq) uses tabbed browsing.
I can drag QuickTime Player to the trash even though QuickTime is part of the OS X foundation.
Apple is a heck of a lot cheaper than Sun.
I have a > year old iBook that I use a lot. I recently aquired a > 3 year old PowerMac G3 450Mhz that is now my main computer. It is very responsive in comparison to my iBook and 1Ghz Pentium machine at work.
We also won't have any cool programs for you to create mods for. :p
PS - Don't fsck with the Gnu Public License the same way you broke the iTunes SDK License or we'll DoS you.
Mozilla is too complex for most users. Phoenix is the only hope for unseating Internet Explorer on Windows.
I hope the Phoenix team creates a Mail and Address Book client to go along with it. Mozilla Calendar is already very nice. It looks like it is based off of iCal.
Apple mentioned at the Macworld before last that they would have Rendezvous support in iTunes in a future release.
I'd rather a company use law as a weapon, than to ignore the law.
- semi-legal, prohibitive licensing practices
How exactly are they semi-legal? Prohibitive?
- price gouging
You're going to have to explain yourself here. They charge much less for most all of their products than their competitors. Their desktops are cheaper than those from Sun and SGI. The iBooks and PowerBooks compete very, very well with clone laptops. Final Cut Pro is far cheaper than AVID. The iApps are all free except for iMovie which is a steal at $49. AppleWorks has a reasonable price and is included with all iMacs and iBooks. Keynote is priced reasonably at $99. PowerPoint is expensive.
- market control
Explain. The only control I've seen them wield is as a pioneer of new technologies.
- FUD
Links?
- product tying
Such as?
- hiding software features
Examples?
- employee abuse
Links? Dave Hyatt doesn't seem to complain.
You might be interested in reading this information at the VB developer center.