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[quote]Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:

<strong>I didn't know this was a feature until my brother bumped it one day and told me about it. It does a slow-motion minimize, just like Steve Jobs did when demonstrating Aqua. Quite cool.

It lets you see just how well done the effects are. For example, when maximizing three windows at once, they actually layered properly during the maximization, and kept the layering after they were all done maximizing.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Cool!

sweet, gotta love undocumented features.

good find!

Older than that...it's been in there as long as I've known about Aqua, so DP3 or earlier...

Some people are slow.

[quote]Originally posted by Benjamin Frere:

<strong>In « public » builds it only appears in DP4. The DP3 doesn't allow that. But Steve's build on january 2000 was something else.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Ahh, DP3! Remember the first glance at Aqua?

Oh yeah. Exciting days before you realised how the Public Beta would behave on a Pismo. You didn´t NEED to hold down the shift key to see the effect in slow motion.

Ugly stuff looking back today. The squares in the dock? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />

But I remember I LOVED the icons for removable disks and iDisks. It was a that time the thin external HD began to appear and they were designed almost like the icon. I actually think they have made some steps backward with the GUI with the icons (a compass for a browser named Safari? No link whatsoever IMHO)

[quote]Originally posted by JLL:

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Oh, man, is that ever close to what everyone is suddenly talking about wanting the Finder to be.

[quote]Originally posted by BuonRotto:

<strong>Oh, man, is that ever close to what everyone is suddenly talking about wanting the Finder to be.</strong><hr></blockquote>What do you mean? Where are you reading this?

If you ever tried the Public Beta, you'd know how terribly static and awkward that was. It was atrocious. Besides, you get practically the same functionality if you want it today. The back, home, view, search, etc. can all be added to the toolbar. The path popup is redundant. If you really want, you can add a path menu to the toolbar, but you already have it built-in when the command-click the window title.

[quote]Originally posted by Anders the White:

<strong> I actually think they have made some steps backward with the GUI with the icons (a compass for a browser named Safari? No link whatsoever IMHO)

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A Safari is an expedition into unknown territories. You need a compass for that kind of a trip. Personally, I don't like the name safari, but whatever.

[quote]Originally posted by Brad:

<strong>What do you mean? Where are you reading this?</strong><hr></blockquote>

I just meant it in a very general sense: people in both this forum at various times in the recent past as well as a current thread at MacNN were talking about a higher level of abstraction to the Finder. To me, this UI is only a hop, skip and jump from this rather restrictive start to a database-like Finder that doesn't bother to show a directory tree but uses more advnaced methods of finding and grouping content.

I know, I'm extrapolating, but the screenshot looks like the clean first step towards this idea, better suited for this functionality even if it is too basic. I think you can argue that the current finder is a little mired in trying to be all things to all people. Obviously, at the time I wasn't thinking this, and it's quite possible Apple wasn't thinking this either. But I can speculate.

[quote]Originally posted by BuonRotto:

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I just meant it in a very general sense: people in both this forum at various times in the recent past as well as a current thread at MacNN were talking about a higher level of abstraction to the Finder. To me, this UI is only a hop, skip and jump from this rather restrictive start to a database-like Finder that doesn't bother to show a directory tree but uses more advnaced methods of finding and grouping content.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Er, that's Column View. It IS showing a directory tree. I think you're misinterpreting the older UI elements... they really weren't as obvious as what we have now.

[quote]<strong>I know, I'm extrapolating, but the screenshot looks like the clean first step towards this idea, better suited for this functionality even if it is too basic. I think you can argue that the current finder is a little mired in trying to be all things to all people. Obviously, at the time I wasn't thinking this, and it's quite possible Apple wasn't thinking this either. But I can speculate. </strong><hr></blockquote>

Speculate away! But I can assure you that the early Finder UI wasn't any more geared to abstract content or metadata searches than the new one. Only the format changed slightly.

Kihaha, I wasn't looking at the columns as much as the toolbar buttons. It's just the way they're set up, they look less like aliases/shortcuts, more like, um, what? operations. It obvious they didn't (and still don't) really consider metadata whatnot i nthe Finder, I just thought it looked more like -- what? -- places, not folders, if that makesany sense. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

[there's only one Kihaha, not two Kihahas]

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[quote]Originally posted by JLL:

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Ahh, DP3! Remember the first glance at Aqua?

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I like the way the dock fits all the way across the bottom of the screen in this picture. I wish it would do that all the time instead of leaving wasted desktop screen space at both edges of the dock. I don't like the way the dock bubbles up. I'd rather see some small text that says what the icon is when you cursor over them.

[quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

<strong>i miss that apple in the middle of the menu...i mean it was pointless and kinda confusing, but i liked the look</strong><hr></blockquote>

It did look cool actually. I liked the look of it.

[quote]Originally posted by BuonRotto:

<strong>Kihaha, I wasn't looking at the columns as much as the toolbar buttons. It's just the way they're set up, they look less like aliases/shortcuts, more like, um, what? operations. It obvious they didn't (and still don't) really consider metadata whatnot i nthe Finder, I just thought it looked more like -- what? -- places, not folders, if that makesany sense. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

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You do realize the only difference is that it's a beveled button, right? I can see how you might think it looks more like an 'action' though.

[quote]<strong>[there's only one Kihaha, not two Kihahas]</strong><hr></blockquote>

Actually, there are no Kihahas, but there is a Kickaha.

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netscape "navigator"

internet "explorer"

apple "safari" out hunting big game cats I think

though I kind of like

Chimera "A fantastic, impracticable plan or desire"

sort of like

Opera , the plural of Opus, " Something that is the result of creative effort: composition, piece, production, work."

... though of course it can be an Italian Musical.

iCab, is not bad, but hey who's driving??? and do you really want to be on this ride?

enough of that.

Safari is not that interesting but is in the same vain as the other major browsers

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