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Looking at old NeXT stuff as a current Mac user is funny, because here and there you spot something that has clearly been brought over nearly intact from 30 yea
by xp84 4y ago
Looking at old NeXT stuff as a current Mac user is funny, because here and there you spot something that has clearly been brought over nearly intact from 30 years ago. Like the color picker in that video! And I'm sure the ⌘T font pane, still used here and there, has the same origin.
- WillAdams 4y agoYes, it does, though it's kind of nice that it added a nifty feature where if collapsed to the minimum vertical height it become a line of drop-down menus to pick typeface and attributes and size.
- xp84 4y agoHey, thanks! I wonder how many years/decades that little feature's been there without me ever knowing it!
- WillAdams 4y agoIt's been there since the early days of Mac OS X --- during one UI flamewar on usenet on either comp.sys.next.advocacy or comp.sys.mac.advocacy I suggested it as a way to address the perception of "wasted" space and it showed up (probably coincidentally) in the next iteration.