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True, but not a 1:1 comparison, because Classic Mac OS windows were much better at staying where you put them, even between sessions. John Siracusa wrote a lot
by Lammy 9mo ago
True, but not a 1:1 comparison, because Classic Mac OS windows were much better at staying where you put them, even between sessions. John Siracusa wrote a lot about how this was missing from Mac OS X: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/
- Wowfunhappy 9mo agoPeople also didn't regularly plug classic Macs into external monitors, changing the screen resolution temporarily. For this and many other reasons, I just don't think the paradigm would work today. It's philosophically smart but limiting in too many other ways.
- Lammy 9mo agoYeah that is also true. I have had that experience with certain CD-ROMs (maybe like two or three ever but has happened) on my PowerBook 2400c. If the authoring machine had a higher display resolution than my machine, and the author had the writable disc image's window open to a place outside my screen resolution, and the window positions got saved to the DesktopDB/DesktopDF, and the DesktopDB/DesktopDF got written to the CD-ROM, then it would open in the position outside my screen resolution every time my own DesktopDB/DesktopDF got erased. One particular artist's CD-ROM is completely outside of it which annoys me every time. Relevant TA: https://web.archive.org/web/20090625152558/http://support.apple.com/kb/TA46427 https://web.archive.org/web/20090625152558/http://support.ap...