Universal GUI

[Alex Rice]

On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 01:39  PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Top 10 Reasons the Apple Dock Sucks
> <http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html>

Get LaunchBar- you will hide the Dock and never us it again :-)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2409

I know Apple deserves massive flame-age, although one has to admit a 
few things good about OS X UI:

- sheets are good invention (sheets are document-centric modal dialogs)
- drop shadows and antialiasing (easier on the eyes)
- real buffering by the window manager  (easier on the eyes)

Whenever I work on my Windows2000 box I am always surprised when there 
are chunky areas all over the screen as the screen redraws when 
launching an app or switching apps. And it has jaggy text rendering. I 
guess they added font smoothing in XP though.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com