{"id":1321,"date":"2006-09-21T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/21\/what-happened-to-the-menu-bars\/"},"modified":"2006-09-21T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T20:44:03","slug":"what-happened-to-the-menu-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/21\/what-happened-to-the-menu-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to the Menu Bars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/shellrevealed.com\/blogs\/shellblog\/archive\/2006\/09\/20\/What-happened-to-the-menu-bars_3F00_.aspx\">Shell Blog<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dancre\/archive\/2006\/09\/20\/763991.aspx\">Dan Crevier<\/a>):\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shellrevealed.com\/blogs\/shellblog\/archive\/2006\/09\/20\/What-happened-to-the-menu-bars_3F00_.aspx\">\r\n<p>\r\nOne of the first things people notice when they start using Vista is the absence of menu bars.\u00a0 Explorer, photo gallery, media player, and IE all don\u2019t show menus by default and just use the so-called \u201ccommand module.\u201d\u00a0 What is up with that?\u00a0 Do we hate menu bars?\u00a0 And more importantly\u2014what is the guidance that third-party developers are supposed to follow?\u00a0 Let me break it down for you.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nUpdate: <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2006\/september#thu-21-menu_bars_windows\">John Gruber adds<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2006\/september#thu-21-menu_bars_windows\">\r\n<p>This trend is dangerous for Adobe, methinks\u2014it\u2019s getting less and less tenable for them to continue shipping Mac and Windows apps that are so similar in design. They\u2019re either going to ship Mac versions that don\u2019t feel Mac-like, Windows versions that don\u2019t feels Windows-like, or, <em>both<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nI was going to write something about how his first option is already happening, but then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penmachine.com\/2006\/09\/i-shall-rant-about-adobe-reader.html\">this post from Derek K. Miller<\/a> popped into NetNewsWire, saving me the trouble.\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shell Blog (via Dan Crevier): One of the first things people notice when they start using Vista is the absence of menu bars.\u00a0 Explorer, photo gallery, media player, and IE all don\u2019t show menus by default and just use the so-called \u201ccommand module.\u201d\u00a0 What is up with that?\u00a0 Do we hate menu bars?\u00a0 And more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}