{"id":708,"date":"2003-11-03T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T21:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=708"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:40:42","slug":"panther_notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/03\/panther_notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Panther Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Apple fixed the bug, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/8.09\/paradigm.shtml\">introduced in Jaguar<\/a>, which prevented my Mac from booting when more than 1 GB of RAM was installed.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, Panther seems much faster and more responsive. I&rsquo;m not sure I&rsquo;d call it fast yet, but it&rsquo;s almost like a processor upgrade on G3 Macs.<\/li>\n<li>The Jaguar Finder was excruciatingly slow at deleting large numbers of files at once. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/05\/102_finder_still_slow.html\">timed<\/a> it and found that it took 45 <em>minutes<\/em> to move 4957 files, where the OS 9 Finder took just 57 <em>seconds<\/em>. The Panther Finder takes 84 seconds, and it shows a progress window instead of locking up the whole Finder with the SPOD.<\/li>\n<li>Preview is <em>much<\/em> better. It&rsquo;s fast. It supports text selection and searching, and also PDF bookmarks and links, although there doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a way to see a link&rsquo;s target, like when you hold down Option in Acrobat. Keyboard navigation in the drawer is screwy. Nevertheless, the improved Preview is probably my favorite Panther feature.<\/li>\n<li>Opening multiple images with Preview once again opens them in separate windows.<\/li>\n<li>Open\/Save dialogs are much improved. Type-selecting is not 100% reliable, though.<\/li>\n<li>Apple Help is good&mdash;at last.<\/li>\n<li>The Fast User Switching animation does indeed look cool, but sometimes the cube rotates in the wrong direction.<\/li>\n<li>Image Capture uses the same kind of animation.<\/li>\n<li>TextEdit (and Cocoa, in general) can read Word files.<\/li>\n<li>So far, the Finder has unexpectedly quit once, Mail twice, and Xcode three times.<\/li>\n<li>Xcode still doesn&rsquo;t have a command for saving projects.<\/li>\n<li>Desktop printing is back, and the printer icon in the Dock does indeed look like my printer.<\/li>\n<li>Expos&eacute; works great, but it&rsquo;s proving to be less useful than I expected, because I tend to hide whole applications, and Expos&eacute; doesn&rsquo;t show their windows.<\/li>\n<li>The keyboard shortcuts in many applications have changed.<\/li>\n<li>LaunchBar refused to work until I trashed its files and had it rebuild them.<\/li>\n<li>Apple has started using a new LinkedTextField UI element. This is a combination button and text field that draws blue-underlined text. It can be seen in Activity Monitor, Mail, Disk Utility, System Preferences, and more. Let&rsquo;s see some guidelines on when to use these.<\/li>\n<li>The Finder is better, but still not acceptable. Column reflowing in icon view still doesn&rsquo;t work right, the icon grid has been enlarged <em>again<\/em>, and window zooming is buggy.<\/li>\n<li>Mail&rsquo;s junk filter identifies spam messages, but for some reason doesn&rsquo;t move them automatically, even when I check that option.<\/li>\n<li>Shift-Tab no longer works in Safari forms.<\/li>\n<li>iPhoto shows &ldquo;PMPM&rdquo; or &ldquo;AMAM&rdquo; after my photo times, instead of &ldquo;PM&rdquo; and &ldquo;AM.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>Address Book now stays in Edit mode when you change between cards.<\/li>\n<li>Smoothed fonts are now blacker and less <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/09\/i_believe_antialiasing_is.html\">fuzzy<\/a> around the edges. This totally changes the way Lucida Grande looks; it seems more narrow, now. I still prefer screen fonts, though. The LCD font smoothing still has visible color artifacts, and doesn&rsquo;t look as good as on Windows.<\/li>\n<li>Connected servers don&rsquo;t show up on the desktop, even if I have that option enabled. Thus, I can&rsquo;t figure out how to unmount AppleShare volumes.<\/li>\n<li>The font panel now has a search field.<\/li>\n<li>The new disk image mounter doesn&rsquo;t seem to respect the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/ue\/files\/iedi.html\">Internet enabled<\/a> flag.<\/li>\n<li>The system now intercepts Command-Option-D before it gets to BBEdit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple fixed the bug, introduced in Jaguar, which prevented my Mac from booting when more than 1 GB of RAM was installed. Overall, Panther seems much faster and more responsive. I&rsquo;m not sure I&rsquo;d call it fast yet, but it&rsquo;s almost like a processor upgrade on G3 Macs. The Jaguar Finder was excruciatingly slow at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-17T18:37:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"5fc41105-b2b0-43e1-9174-fb178d2fb03f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-03T22:40:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AX8QRBbKwQ-GRdPsXjS-wPw","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":[1658,2038,30,1388],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-help","tag-fast-user-switching","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-3-panther"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48323,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/48323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}