On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Rob Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also on the subject of menus, MS was the first UI that had > context-sensitive menus (pop up menus). I remember when Apple's OS (7 or 8 I > think) did not have them, and I even remember The Steve making fun of them, > saying you only need one button on your mouse. Then soon after that, the > "control-click" was born on the Mac, as a way to "right-click" without a > second mouse button. So I'll give MS credit for that very useful innovation. Indeed. Windows goes actually even further by allowing context menus to appear on menus. I know it sounds weird but I do use that occasionally, for example when I have a menu full of bookmarks and I need to do a context sensitive operation on one of them. This is just one of the many examples where Windows is a lot more orthogonal than Mac OS is. Another example of this is the File Explorer. On Windows, wherever the File Explorer is used, you can use all its features, including in a File Dialog. When I open a file dialog on Mac, a window that looks like the Finder appears but a lot of the operations that you would expect to work such as deleting or renaming a file are mysteriously not available. This is very irritating. Mac OS is filled with these irritating inconsistencies that are a symptom that the underlying structure of the OS is antiquated and hard to modify (look how many class names from the NeXt era you find down there...). -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
