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And then you have Sylvio Rizzi (of Reeder fame) just one-shotting the whole Liquid Glass tenet by using the prominent glass element to focus on the actual conte

And then you have Sylvio Rizzi (of Reeder fame) just one-shotting the whole Liquid Glass tenet by using the prominent glass element to focus on the actual content instead of that hideous sidebar (a liquid glass element I hate the most, not just for a way it makes Xcode 26 sidebar 1 cm wider than Xcode 18 with the same content). I would wear the t-shirt with Reeder screenshot to work if I worked at Apple, and would observe who notices it. https://x.com/tomaskafka/status/2008168483608293873 https://x.com/tomaskafka/status/2008168483608293873

dxdm 9mo ago
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. I clicked on your link to your own post on x.com and found pretty much the same text, plus a screenshot that does not explain anything - potentially because I don't know how to get to a full-screen-sized version of that image, but I actually doubt that would help. If it can't be explained in words here on this site, could you please tell me what I'm looking at/for in the screenhot?
- davidivadavid 9mo ago
  I'm not intimately familiar with the UI/UX principles behind Liquid Glass so I could be wrong, but the main difference I see here is that in the second screenshot, on the Reeder app on the left, the "floating" section is used for emphasis on the main content area (right hand side), while in the Finder screenshot on the right, it's the navigation menu on the left that is floating, and brings unneeded emphasis to itself. Looking at it for 30s, I still don't understand what Apple was trying to do. What am I supposed to believe happens to the table as it goes under that floating menu? It clearly doesn't seem to continue all the way to the left edge of the window. Why not? If not, why bother with that whole floating menu concept if the underlying content arbitrarily stops at the menu? The most surprising part to me is how people keep calling that nonsense "skeuomorphic" when it doesn't replicate any kind of physical intuition known to mankind. It's just made up physics that looks dumb.
  - tomaskafka 9mo ago
    This. The shadows and highlights tell "this is the main thing on top", and in Apple's world, they wrongly picked the sidebar as worthy of this attention.
- tomaskafka 9mo ago
  The tweet contains the actual screenshot of the situation.
pornel 9mo ago
X displays a cut down post preview to people who aren't members of the site. There's no context, no comments. It seems like the preview for not-fans-of-Elon is also missing a screenshot?

dxdm 9mo ago

I don't understand the point you're trying to make. I clicked on your link to your own post on x.com and found pretty much the same text, plus a screenshot that does not explain anything - potentially because I don't know how to get to a full-screen-sized version of that image, but I actually doubt that would help. If it can't be explained in words here on this site, could you please tell me what I'm looking at/for in the screenhot?

davidivadavid 9mo ago
I'm not intimately familiar with the UI/UX principles behind Liquid Glass so I could be wrong, but the main difference I see here is that in the second screenshot, on the Reeder app on the left, the "floating" section is used for emphasis on the main content area (right hand side), while in the Finder screenshot on the right, it's the navigation menu on the left that is floating, and brings unneeded emphasis to itself. Looking at it for 30s, I still don't understand what Apple was trying to do. What am I supposed to believe happens to the table as it goes under that floating menu? It clearly doesn't seem to continue all the way to the left edge of the window. Why not? If not, why bother with that whole floating menu concept if the underlying content arbitrarily stops at the menu? The most surprising part to me is how people keep calling that nonsense "skeuomorphic" when it doesn't replicate any kind of physical intuition known to mankind. It's just made up physics that looks dumb.
- tomaskafka 9mo ago
  This. The shadows and highlights tell "this is the main thing on top", and in Apple's world, they wrongly picked the sidebar as worthy of this attention.
tomaskafka 9mo ago
The tweet contains the actual screenshot of the situation.

pornel 9mo ago

X displays a cut down post preview to people who aren't members of the site. There's no context, no comments. It seems like the preview for not-fans-of-Elon is also missing a screenshot?