It's definitely interesting seeing how little the Dock has seemingly changed over the decades. However, the most significant change is actually one not shown here at all. The initial version of...
It's definitely interesting seeing how little the Dock has seemingly changed over the decades. However, the most significant change is actually one not shown here at all. The initial version of the dock that was shown off during the OS X announcement is still the most interesting version of the dock to me, it looks so un-Apple-like. I found a blogpost from the developer that worked on it so I've linked it below.
...i actually started with NeXTstep and didn't jump over to the macintosh until system 7.5, which was a huge paradigm shift akin to jumping from my //e to the cube...
...i actually started with NeXTstep and didn't jump over to the macintosh until system 7.5, which was a huge paradigm shift akin to jumping from my //e to the cube...
Worth sharing that the Dock was not always beloved. Bruce Tognazzini apparently hated it! His criticisms seem pretty spot on to me too, despite me actually liking it.
...classic had accumulated a lot of cruft by the time it was put to pasture, but its core user interface and filesystem paradigms were demonstrably superior to NeXTstep, which has never really...
...classic had accumulated a lot of cruft by the time it was put to pasture, but its core user interface and filesystem paradigms were demonstrably superior to NeXTstep, which has never really caught up...
It's definitely interesting seeing how little the Dock has seemingly changed over the decades. However, the most significant change is actually one not shown here at all. The initial version of the dock that was shown off during the OS X announcement is still the most interesting version of the dock to me, it looks so un-Apple-like. I found a blogpost from the developer that worked on it so I've linked it below.
https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/
That Dock looks quite similar to the NeXTSTEP Dock, which is of course where the macOS dock comes from originally.
Yep, it definitely shows the NeXTSTEP origins quite well.
My first version of OSX was snow leopard, and funnily enough I still keep my app store at the top of the bar next to finder.
You started with a good one! I’ve been a Mac user since System 6 and I still look back to Snow Leopard as one of the best.
...i actually started with NeXTstep and didn't jump over to the macintosh until system 7.5, which was a huge paradigm shift akin to jumping from my //e to the cube...
Worth sharing that the Dock was not always beloved. Bruce Tognazzini apparently hated it!
His criticisms seem pretty spot on to me too, despite me actually liking it.
...classic had accumulated a lot of cruft by the time it was put to pasture, but its core user interface and filesystem paradigms were demonstrably superior to NeXTstep, which has never really caught up...