{"id":529,"date":"2003-06-21T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2003-06-21T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=529"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"anticipatory_software_des","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/21\/anticipatory_software_des\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipatory Software Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.applelust.com\/oped\/applepeel\/archives\/peel_58_030620.shtml\">Pierre Igot<\/a> writes about &ldquo;tendency to design software for which the optimal running environment is a computer that does not exist yet.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a real problem, although I disagree with one part of his article:\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.applelust.com\/oped\/applepeel\/archives\/peel_58_030620.shtml\">\n\nIt is clear that Apple is quite aware that this is an issue. Otherwise, they would not have provided users with the option to turn drop shadows off in iPhoto&nbsp;2. They would not have introduced the option to turn the Preview display off by default in Columns view in the Finder.\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nI turned off shadows in iPhoto because I don&rsquo;t like the way they look, and I turned off previews in the Finder because of the way they interfere with scrolling and keyboard navigation.\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Igot writes about &ldquo;tendency to design software for which the optimal running environment is a computer that does not exist yet.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a real problem, although I disagree with one part of his article: It is clear that Apple is quite aware that this is an issue. Otherwise, they would not have provided users [&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-529","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\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}