{"id":512,"date":"2003-06-19T22:20:01","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T02:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=512"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"it_adds_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/it_adds_up\/","title":{"rendered":"It Adds Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\nI&rsquo;ve got to admire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latext.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/06.html#a334\">Pierre Igot<\/a> for writing a whole page about the brief hole in Mac OS X&rsquo;s input buffer.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.latext.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/06.html#a334\">\n\n<p>\n\nIn the good old days of Mac OS 9, even if you clicked on something &ldquo;in advance&rdquo;, before the software was actually ready to process your click, your mouse click would be recorded in some kind of &ldquo;buffer&rdquo; and would be applied as soon as the software was ready. It was the same with keystrokes.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\nIn Mac OS X, all too often, if you start clicking or typing something before the software is actually ready to register your actions, then what you&rsquo;ve clicked or typed gets lost in unresponsive UI limbo forever.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\nIt's irritating.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nIgot also wrote an article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applelust.com\/oped\/applepeel\/archives\/peel_57_030606.shtml\">intrusiveness of background processes<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAs Rob Fleming would say: <em>these things matter.<\/em>\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve got to admire Pierre Igot for writing a whole page about the brief hole in Mac OS X&rsquo;s input buffer. In the good old days of Mac OS 9, even if you clicked on something &ldquo;in advance&rdquo;, before the software was actually ready to process your click, your mouse click would be recorded in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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-512","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\/512","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}