Attention to detail
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 3:14:57 PM EST Hüseyin Tüfekçilerli wrote:
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In Linux, I have also noticed lots of similar effects and felt the same feelings :)
On 01/23/2006 at 5:21:32 PM EST MK wrote:
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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 8:18:44 PM EST djw wrote:
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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 8:37:31 AM EST Lee Joramo wrote:
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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 5:02:47 PM EST Andrew Roazen wrote:
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http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1142.html
OS 8.5, documented 10/26/1998.
On 01/26/2006 at 6:49:46 PM EST Jauhari wrote:
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I want this machine, I hope this year get Apple Mac Pro Intel based notebook ;)
On 06/13/2006 at 5:35:39 PM EDT Joe wrote:
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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 12:45:54 PM EDT Simon wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
OS 8.5, documented 10/26/1998.
Also, the icon of iCal (in the Dock) displays the current date when iCal is running.
