Mac user obnoxiousness
Tuesday, October 1, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/09/30.14.shtml
I don't really like Macs or more to the point, I can't think of Macs without thinking of Mac users.
Mac users sincerely believe that everything good and nice on the UI came from the mind of Apple first.
The latest example is WindowFX where Mac bigots seem to think that they invented this stuff. WindowFX came out before Aqua. And if someone wants to find what program inspired WindowFX more than anything else it was NPS/WPS from OS/2 which came out years ago (it had shadows, morphing of windows on min/max, etc.).
Apple does get credit for making cool effects famous but that's not the same as having invented it.
I don't really like Macs or more to the point, I can't think of Macs without thinking of Mac users.
Mac users sincerely believe that everything good and nice on the UI came from the mind of Apple first.
The latest example is WindowFX where Mac bigots seem to think that they invented this stuff. WindowFX came out before Aqua. And if someone wants to find what program inspired WindowFX more than anything else it was NPS/WPS from OS/2 which came out years ago (it had shadows, morphing of windows on min/max, etc.).
Apple does get credit for making cool effects famous but that's not the same as having invented it.
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Reply #81 Tuesday, October 8, 2002 5:08 PM
Mac & Windows are comercial OSes, that means indepndence for other platforms to be the most used (and purchased OS around). Linux too, gNome and KDE don't are using the same APIS, And BE, and Irix.
And there's the binary compatibility: x86, Itanium, PowerPC, etc. and special processing units (SSE, 3DNow, Altivec).
For this objective, there's the scripting languages, that are working very well on web sites (like Wincustomize) on any computer with a actual web browser.
This idea will be very good, but developpers are not according. There's also the same question for Customization Developpers: Stardock have their different concepts about Lighttek or mss styles. Windows, OSX and KDE-gNome are using the same graphics sources (32 bits colours graphics with alphablends) but are using different kind of files (in my opinion the best option is the gnome/kde, that uses a simple png file).