On Thursday, March 29, 2001, at 02:48 , Harry (lists) wrote:
>> Don't get me started on the rebuttal then. Having done waaay too much
>> work
>> on OS - type programming, (never again), I am astounded at how well
>> the dock
>> works, and how it fits into the X paradigm.
>
> Yeah, well could we maybe turn down the gushing OS X lovefest - and
> instead
> of gushing how well certain geeky things work, how about realizing how
> well
> certain essentials DON'T work?
Who's in a lovefest? Certainly not me. But the Dock works really well
within the OSX rules and UI. Sorry you don't like that.
>
> "How well the Dock works" - what, you mean such apps like DragThing and
> the
> likes were so impossible to program that they didn't really work?
> Puhleeze -
> the Dock is certainly NOT a tour-de-force of innovation.
But they wouldn't have worked in their present form in OS X. It's a
different set of rules, and you can't just graft things onto it and
expect it to fit in. You can put the spoiler from a Road Runner on a
Civic, but it's gonna look REALLY dorky and bad.
>
>> Apple's not stupid, nor do they "not care" about the OS.
>
> Yeah, you're right "Apple" is not stupid - too bad it doesn't have much
> to
> say with all the NeXTites running it these days.
Oh get real already. Considering how well Apple had been doing
pre-nextie...how many engineers were working on System 7.5.5? ten? and
that no one there could say the word 'no' long enough to get Copland
done, I'll take something that works, and is fixable, over an unreleased
concept that could have been really good.
john
"There is no 'I' in TEAM."
US Navy SEALs
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