{"id":9762,"date":"2014-10-08T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2018-05-31T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T01:28:08","slug":"the-source-of-technote-2034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/the-source-of-technote-2034\/","title":{"rendered":"The Source of Technote #2034"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Apple Evangelist Tim Holmes<\/a> started a huge Twitter reply chain referring to this podcast episode<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I admit responsibility for Technote 2034. An act of civil disobedience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s Avie’s 10 commandments. I felt devs should know. Some engineers felt they were losing Mac OS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a non-coder, I was less personally offended than some, but paths sure did feel like the beginning of the end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had an agenda… impart a reality check. It was ’01… no way devs could comply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still have 2001 emails as to why & from outraged devs asking if I’d seen it & if I could help fix it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fragility is the real issue. Remove a few letters and it breaks w\/no easy fix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Avi Drissman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Back in 2002, Apple published a technote, Technote 2034<\/a>, which was one of the most pro-Next, anti-classic-Apple things that was seen in a long while. It was met with immediate, violent reaction, and Apple withdrew it.<\/p>\n

Of course, I wrote a reply<\/a> which I emailed to Apple and filed as a bug in Radar (closed as duplicate). But that didn’t seem to be enough, so for WWDC 2002, I made up a batch of No To TN2034 buttons that I handed out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John Gruber<\/a> (2003):<\/p>\n

Tevanian’s legacy is marred, however, by Mac OS X’s usability flaws, most of which are attributable to Tevanian’s nearly unyielding obsession with promoting old Next technology over old Apple technology. His technical acumen may be undisputed, but neither is his tin ear for usability.<\/p>\n

Epitomizing this flaw was the infamous Technical Note #2034, entitled “Mac OS X Programming Guidelines”, which as reported by MDJ<\/a> was written by Tevanian personally. Technote #2034 was so inflammatory, and in places so ludicrous<\/em>, that Apple withdrew it afters howls of derision from professional Mac developers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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