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It will never cease to amaze to me that Apple (under Jef Raskin who also wrote about this in The Humane Interface) observed and fixed problems with interactions
by ProxCoques 1mo ago
It will never cease to amaze to me that Apple (under Jef Raskin who also wrote about this in The Humane Interface) observed and fixed problems with interactions like this in SYSTEM 6 in like 1993 or something - only for the same problem to have to be re-descovered and re-fixed decades later.
- hinkley 1mo agoChesterton's Fence. Why on earth do we need this thing here? Oh, that's why.
- silon42 1mo agoRewrite will be better /s
- hinkley 1mo agoThe rewrite is better! For the engineers who are planning to have a new job in a year. They get a whole year of being able to deflect all questions about how far behind schedule we are and how many of the customers want to burn the building down. It's a great gig if you can get it. Horrible for the users and investors, of course, but great for the engineers.
- baxtr 1mo agoIn its most concise version, Chesterton’s Fence states the following: “Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.”
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- projektfu 1mo agoRaskin left Apple in 1982.
- twelvechairs 1mo agoEven more amazing! (Raskin left before even the original macintosh he helped lead. He also opposed the use of the mouse)
- pastel8739 1mo agoBecause every single application rebuilds their own operating system
- vachina 1mo agoThis is also how tooltips in Windows XP behave too. Tooltips fade in on cold hover, and subsequent hovers show the tooltips with zero delay. I like how these things are "figured out" and then fleshed out bit by bit like they're some kind of innovation. Software industry in a nutshell.
- nancyminusone 1mo agoeveryone hates reading
- WorldMaker 1mo agoRelatedly, my immediate reaction was "tooltips on logos? Just use alt attributes and browser native tooltips, stop reinventing wheels that are already decently handled in HTML".
- Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo agoThere was another similar loss and discovery about non-linear geometry of submenus. Most websites build it naively so that once a submenu has opened, you must guide your mouse very carefully toward it or it will close again. There is a better approach that allows for less precise and faster reach, but it requires some geometry when tracking the mouse. It was working on Macs from very early time and remember even reading about it somewhere. Then it was lost.