Attention to detail

January 23, 2006

safari download progress icon I noticed something new today on my Mac. When you download a file with Safari, the icon for the new file has a progress bar that updates as it downloads.

After seeing this feature that many people like myself have probably never even noticed before, I thought wow, Apple really does pay close attention to detail. This is perhaps one of the reasons for their success.

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On 01/23/2006 at 5:14:57 PM EST Hüseyin Tüfekçilerli wrote:

In Linux, I have also noticed lots of similar effects and felt the same feelings :)

On 01/23/2006 at 7:21:32 PM EST MK wrote:

That's a cool feature.. On the PC I look in the taskbar where It shows "x% of X downloading". Since I always have programs open, I almost never look at the desktop when downloading - so to have an animation of something I'll never look at is a waste of my processor. THAT's attention to detail.

On 01/23/2006 at 10:18:44 PM EST djw wrote:

MK,

> so to have an animation of something I'll never look at is a waste of my processor.

You must be referring to Window's animated 'copying' dialog box! ;-)

Pete, I've noticed a similar display in the dock with application icons showing the progress too. Nice.

On 01/24/2006 at 10:37:31 AM EST Lee Joramo wrote:

If my memory serves Microsoft IE for Mac version 3 or 4 first introduced the idea of updating the icon to show down.load progress.

On 01/25/2006 at 7:02:47 PM EST Andrew Roazen wrote:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1142.html

OS 8.5, documented 10/26/1998.

On 01/26/2006 at 8:49:46 PM EST Jauhari wrote:

I want this machine, I hope this year get Apple Mac Pro Intel based notebook ;)

On 06/13/2006 at 7:35:39 PM EDT Joe wrote:

Even better is, if the download is interrupted, you can click on the download icon and it'll resume where it left off.

On 09/24/2006 at 2:45:54 PM EDT Simon wrote:

When you start Classic on OS X, the icon in the Dock has a 9 that slowly fills up with orange whilst Classic is loading.

Also, the icon of iCal (in the Dock) displays the current date when iCal is running.

On 05/28/2011 at 3:31:28 PM EDT Janese wrote:

You?re on top of the game. Thanks for sahrnig.

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