Every now and again I'll run emulators of Macs I used to own and remind myself how good I have it in the modern era, but also of good ideas lost to time. This was a nice walk through of what was...
Every now and again I'll run emulators of Macs I used to own and remind myself how good I have it in the modern era, but also of good ideas lost to time. This was a nice walk through of what was without having to boot up a laggy/crashy emulator.
I love how easy and understandable the early preferences are. You literally don’t even need words to understand them. Contrast that with the current System Preferences app on iOS or MacOS. It’s...
I love how easy and understandable the early preferences are. You literally don’t even need words to understand them.
Contrast that with the current System Preferences app on iOS or MacOS. It’s not a 1:1 comparison because the original Mac pane had what, 15 controls? The current ones have literally hundreds. But it’s a Byzantine mess of sections, menus and jumbled UI paradigms. I mean, changing the default browser on MacOS is in Settings> Desktop and Dock! On what planet does that make sense?
The latest redesign of System Pre… err, Settings was really not necessary at all in my opinion. The old design didn’t feel outdated and was more clear and had great visual cues to hook onto for...
The latest redesign of System Pre… err, Settings was really not necessary at all in my opinion. The old design didn’t feel outdated and was more clear and had great visual cues to hook onto for quick navigation.
There’s a supposed benefit of being more familiar to iPhone/iPad users coming over, except that the iOS settings model doesn’t map cleanly to Mac settings, so the hierarchy has to be different, rendering that moot.
The old one was not only clearer and easier to use, but it followed the traditional Mac paradigm of windows changing size to accommodate their contents. The new one is full of multiple scrolling...
The old one was not only clearer and easier to use, but it followed the traditional Mac paradigm of windows changing size to accommodate their contents.
The new one is full of multiple scrolling panes, which was never necessary before...and is very bad with the system defaults of hiding scroll bars and scrolling in the wrong direction.
...i feel like this link was posted maybe late summer?..no matter; it was impressive then and it's still impressive now... edit: ...ah, no, i'm thinking of the day return became enter from the...
...i feel like this link was posted maybe late summer?..no matter; it was impressive then and it's still impressive now...
Every now and again I'll run emulators of Macs I used to own and remind myself how good I have it in the modern era, but also of good ideas lost to time. This was a nice walk through of what was without having to boot up a laggy/crashy emulator.
Projecting the emulated screen angled/skewed onto the original hardware bezel in a skeuomorphic way makes it at least twice as impressive.
I love how easy and understandable the early preferences are. You literally don’t even need words to understand them.
Contrast that with the current System Preferences app on iOS or MacOS. It’s not a 1:1 comparison because the original Mac pane had what, 15 controls? The current ones have literally hundreds. But it’s a Byzantine mess of sections, menus and jumbled UI paradigms. I mean, changing the default browser on MacOS is in Settings> Desktop and Dock! On what planet does that make sense?
The latest redesign of System Pre… err, Settings was really not necessary at all in my opinion. The old design didn’t feel outdated and was more clear and had great visual cues to hook onto for quick navigation.
There’s a supposed benefit of being more familiar to iPhone/iPad users coming over, except that the iOS settings model doesn’t map cleanly to Mac settings, so the hierarchy has to be different, rendering that moot.
I’m still salty after they changed the system preferences layout in Ventura.
The old one was not only clearer and easier to use, but it followed the traditional Mac paradigm of windows changing size to accommodate their contents.
The new one is full of multiple scrolling panes, which was never necessary before...and is very bad with the system defaults of hiding scroll bars and scrolling in the wrong direction.
...i feel like this link was posted maybe late summer?..no matter; it was impressive then and it's still impressive now...
edit: ...ah, no, i'm thinking of the day return became enter from the same site...