{"id":718,"date":"2003-11-12T14:59:29","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=718"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"grab_bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/12\/grab_bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/reviews\/003\/panther\/macosx-10.3-1.html\">John Siracusa<\/a> gives his normal in-depth treatment to Panther. I liked his points about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/reviews\/003\/panther\/macosx-10.3-4.html#animations\">auto-hiding scroll bars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/reviews\/003\/panther\/macosx-10.3-4.html#new-look-summary\">look and feel churn<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/reviews\/003\/panther\/macosx-10.3-9.html#finder-labels\">weird widget instead of a Labels submenu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/reviews\/003\/panther\/macosx-10.3-10.html#finder-polling\">Finder polling<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/reviews\/003\/panther\/macosx-10.3-11.html#same-old-finder\">sameness and unpredictability of the Finder<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mpt.phrasewise.com\/2003\/11\/11#a542\">Matthew Thomas<\/a> says security certificates are &ldquo;a demonstrably unusable solution to the wrong problem.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthlingsoft.net\/ssp\/blog\/2003\/11\/mature_burning\">Sven-S. Porst<\/a> discusses some iTunes usability issues. I guess I&rsquo;m not the only one who thought the burning procedure was weird.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heisel.org\/archives\/2003\/11\/05\/beyond_the_clickthrough.php\">Chris Heisel<\/a> explains how &ldquo;there is more value in online advertising than the click-through alone.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThe Mac vs. PC question at the recent Democratic presidential candidate debate was apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2003\/11\/11\/cnn_planted_question_at_debate_student_says\/\">a plant<\/a>.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Siracusa gives his normal in-depth treatment to Panther. I liked his points about auto-hiding scroll bars, look and feel churn, the weird widget instead of a Labels submenu, Finder polling, and the sameness and unpredictability of the Finder. Matthew Thomas says security certificates are &ldquo;a demonstrably unusable solution to the wrong problem.&rdquo; Sven-S. Porst [&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-718","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\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}