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I always thought Jobs was prescient to mandate that the menu bar appear as part of the OS chrome on MacOS and not an individual application's chrome like it was
by EdSharkey 7y ago
I always thought Jobs was prescient to mandate that the menu bar appear as part of the OS chrome on MacOS and not an individual application's chrome like it was on Windows. Always-on menu prevented bored UX folks from EVER removing the menu from the screen. Always active menu has felt clunky on Mac since the advent of multiscreens and very wide screens, but I still appreciate this UX design tenet.
The discoverability heavyweight champ always was and always will be the menu.
I wonder if Jobs ever discussed Always-on menu publicly and contrasted it with Windows' approach.
- UweSchmidt 7y agoGreat point, makes me admire Jobs even more.