On 7 Mar 2006 at 15:39, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > At 11:31 AM 3/7/06 -0800, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > > > >> Windows developers "sometimes afflict"? Thanks for the laugh. > >> Really........ > > > > Yeah, I know, I know. > > > > Seriously, though, there's one thing I like very much -- full > > maximizing, where the taskbar autohides and the application takes > > 100% of the screen real estate. > > Oh, kind of like Mac OS X's Dock...
Er, the Taskbar came first. The feature Dennis describes was present in the first implementation of it, in Windows 95. The Dock copies a good idea that Microsoft implemented first (which, arguably, was copied by Microsoft from various utilities), and Apple copied in OS X. There are good and bad things about the Taskbar and according to those in the know, the Dock, as well. Some critics (Tog anyone?) criticized the intial implementations of the Dock for copying not just the good things in the Taskbar, but also many of the bad features of it. I don't understand how a reasonable discussion has now gotten into this kind of tit-for-tat back and forth on trivialities. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
