{"id":9,"date":"2002-09-25T22:36:35","date_gmt":"2002-09-26T02:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=9"},"modified":"2018-01-03T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:09:29","slug":"jaguar_info_windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/25\/jaguar_info_windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguar Info Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Bereskin claims that Jaguar <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0100676\/2002\/09\/24.html#a28\">makes everyone happy<\/a> by supporting old-style Get Info windows as well as NeXT-style Get Info inspectors. Let&rsquo;s see: if I select two files and type Command-I without holding down Option, do I get one info window for each? Nope, I get a single window with info for &ldquo;2 items.&rdquo; Oops.<\/p>\n\n<p>Trying to make everyone happy never seems to work. We have hidden filename extensions with <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/techpubs\/macosx\/ReleaseNotes\/FileExtensionGuidelines.html\">complicated rules<\/a>, a hybrid Finder that refuses to stick to spatial mode, and the option to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/7.10\/paradigm.shtml\">trade<\/a> fuzzy text for poorly spaced text. In each of these cases, Apple gives the appearance of catering to the &ldquo;classic&rdquo; Mac users without really giving them what they want.<\/p>\n\n<p>I try not to be too critical of Apple, but (to paraphrase Alan Kay) they have the only OS worth critiquing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Bereskin claims that Jaguar makes everyone happy by supporting old-style Get Info windows as well as NeXT-style Get Info inspectors. Let&rsquo;s see: if I select two files and type Command-I without holding down Option, do I get one info window for each? Nope, I get a single window with info for &ldquo;2 items.&rdquo; Oops. [&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":"","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":[1611,458,30,655],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-alan-kay","tag-finder","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-2-jaguar"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20030,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/20030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}