From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apple still doesn't sell two-button mice
Doesn't matter who makes them. Plug one in and it's fully supported. Thus, they have copied the concept. ---
in OS 9 there used to be a wonderful utility called FinderPop that would pop up the control-click menu if you held down the mouse button long enough
Yes, and we all know what effect anything that builds on a delay has on the SPEED and feel of an OS... ---
contextual menues,
Contextual menus predate Windows by quite a bit...
Doesn't matter who did it first, fact is Windows had it as part of the OS before the Mac OS, and saying "oh, but they copied it first" kinda blows the Windoze stole the Mac OS argument, don't you think ?! ---
visual indication on the icon that a file is an alias,
This was true when aliases were introduced on Macs, way pre-Win95. Prior to OS 9, aliases always had their name in italics
And there were utilities to change it to bold etc. ---
It's only recently that they felt the need to stick the dumb little arrows on..
The argument was merely that the Mac OS has derivities from Windoze. ---
Also, I'm not positive again, but I seem to recall that the column view in finder is a hangover from NeXT, which, again, predates Windows95...There was some controversy when Rhapsody was going to have that as it's *only* file navigation view.
Doesn't matter who did what first, fact is that file navigation is not as complete in Mac OS X compared to Windoze!!
Larry
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