Comments on: Last One to the Party http://raoli.com/2007/10/25/last-one-to-the-party/ random and occassionally coherent musings Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:38:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Eric http://raoli.com/2007/10/25/last-one-to-the-party/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Eric Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:14:54 +0000 http://raoli.com/2007/10/25/last-one-to-the-party/#comment-359 <p>Rob - OS X has definitely come a long way from the days when "What OS 9 feature do you want in OS X" could be answered by saying something like "CD Burning."</p> <p>Thinking about it, I'd like to see an updated implementation of Publish and Subscribe at the OS level. We've got a third party solution in <a href="http://www.linkbackproject.org/" rel="nofollow">LinkBack</a>, but I think there'd be more developer support if such a tech was standardized in the OS. Perhaps mix in some Time Machine support so you could choose between different revisions of the linked item.</p> Rob – OS X has definitely come a long way from the days when “What OS 9 feature do you want in OS X” could be answered by saying something like “CD Burning.”

Thinking about it, I’d like to see an updated implementation of Publish and Subscribe at the OS level. We’ve got a third party solution in LinkBack, but I think there’d be more developer support if such a tech was standardized in the OS. Perhaps mix in some Time Machine support so you could choose between different revisions of the linked item.

]]> By: rob colonna http://raoli.com/2007/10/25/last-one-to-the-party/comment-page-1/#comment-358 rob colonna Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:57:02 +0000 http://raoli.com/2007/10/25/last-one-to-the-party/#comment-358 <p>to be fair, the data detectors used to be a fairly obscure free download for the classic os 8 and 9, if i remember correctly; very cool stuff at the time, but not something a lot of people used. i still wouldn't mind having a fully-customizable apple menu again, or windowshade. maybe with a really elaborate animated rolling-up. that's what's so amazing about os x today, and perhaps even more so, the iphone. all these little nuggets of stuff that they've done since 1995, all still there, mixed in in such a way to make you think they finally found a good home for all the random good stuff they've done.</p> to be fair, the data detectors used to be a fairly obscure free download for the classic os 8 and 9, if i remember correctly; very cool stuff at the time, but not something a lot of people used. i still wouldn’t mind having a fully-customizable apple menu again, or windowshade. maybe with a really elaborate animated rolling-up. that’s what’s so amazing about os x today, and perhaps even more so, the iphone. all these little nuggets of stuff that they’ve done since 1995, all still there, mixed in in such a way to make you think they finally found a good home for all the random good stuff they’ve done.

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://raoli.com/2007/10/25/last-one-to-the-party/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Glenn Fleishman Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:43:31 +0000 http://raoli.com/2007/10/25/last-one-to-the-party/#comment-357 <p>That's hilarious!</p> <p>Actually, there's "feature in Mac OS X that's most like a feature that was underimplemented in OS 9 or earlier": software base station. They keep moving it around. Now it's in a different tab in Leopard, but Internet sharing is still unable to use WPA encryption or 128-bit WEP, and other aspects are poor, too.</p> That’s hilarious!

Actually, there’s “feature in Mac OS X that’s most like a feature that was underimplemented in OS 9 or earlier”: software base station. They keep moving it around. Now it’s in a different tab in Leopard, but Internet sharing is still unable to use WPA encryption or 128-bit WEP, and other aspects are poor, too.

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