Sunday morning, a long night
worth noting what someone from 9to5Mac wants to do with Safari on Yosemite.
https://twitter.com/MikeBeas/status/527708014414143488 was unfortunately just a mock-up of what's wanted. (For a couple of weeks I imagined that he truly had Safar i
running as shown there.)
Thanks by the way.
What's bothered me in this thread is that people are making problems out things that aren't (the calculator thingie).
In isolation, the problem with Calculator is relatively trivial (close to negligible).
It is nonetheless part of a greater problem with
Apple suggesting that it's universally OK to abandon the title bar as a means of identifying, a means of distinguishing between some types of application for Mac users. This is
not OK. From
four pages back
Seriously. Deaths, associated with inappropriate approaches to design. Whatever your opinion of Yosemite: please read that article by Jonathan Shariat. It's not long, just four minutes, not about Apple, very thought-provoking.
Consider the big pictures. Consider the ways in which some third party developers will mimic Apple's inconsistent approaches to Yosemite, without giving the necessary to thought to what's truly required from an application in a given environment.
Whenever, wherever I find a potentially troublesome user experience for Mac users emerging (as a result of iOS-style apps on OS X, for example), I'll not hesitate to criticise those designs. The Yosemite experiments must not be an excuse for lazy or careless development.
On my reading list, here in MacRumors: comments under
Apple and IBM Introduce Ten Business-Focused 'IBM MobileFirst' iOS Apps. Glancing at the article alone, there's nothing healthcare-related, but companies such as IBM
are often associated with healthcare (
example) so people should keep an eye on such developments.
lack of choice for every OS X version ever. And when a customisation solution comes by
Yes
if I'm to upgrade from Mavericks, I must have the choice of an alternative to what Apple imagines is an acceptable appearance.
The user should be allowed to set preferences that suit the environment. A healthcare environment, for example. A dimly lit nurses' station, maybe, in a ward where all other lights are off whilst patients sleep. Maybe it's 03:00 and this future nurse is presented, in the dark, with an array of excessively bright/white windows, most of which are partly obscured and not suitably titled. On the ward, there's a critical event that requires urgent attention.
The nurse reaches for something, naturally in a hurry. A click on the title bar. Does the required window come to front? Never say never
that's another example of why I'm so disappointed with Apple bulldozing ahead with such a contentious design. I must say, and I thought for a few months before saying this:
the beta testing period for Yosemite was too rushed too much was decided privately before testing began. Yes, it sometimes makes me angry. Yes, I recently visited a dear friend after midnight in a dark ward where the nurse was sat at a dimly-lit desk with a computer screen, hours before a surgical procedure that brings considerable risk of devastating consequences.
First rush the beta testing and
then publish human interface guidelines? From a software-oriented organisation as
influential as Apple, that's somewhat irresponsible; the company
should set a gold standard for usability, clarity and so on; not a troublesome, less legible, harsher-on-the-eyes standard!
I'm used to shortcutting between apps via cmd+tab and shortcutting windows via cmd+, so I personally didn't even notice lack of titlebars.
probably just the way I use it.
Yeah, I also use shortcuts such as those extremely often.
It's fine, natural for some users, maybe a majority, to not notice titles
but
not OK for Apple to imagine that all other users of Yosemite will adapt to being deprived of such things.
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Reining myself in again (what's above was drafted in the early hours
my friend who was in hospital for that op found out, just yesterday, that his brother's dead)
Apple and influence
https://diigo.com/075ikk for highlights from
Six Colors: Taking Apples lead
Apples not sending such clear signals to developers.
recommended reading.
Saccades
I don't use dual monitors because saccades, I prefer a single large screen
For me it's less about distances (if that's what you mean)
more about learnt saccades, learnt consistently over decades, that are extraordinarily difficult to unlearn. More specifically: the (almost?) involuntary first movement of my eyes, to the centre of the title in the title bar, a movement that may be far more likely to occur after any period away from the screen (or computer). I don't pretend to be knowledgeable about these things, neither do I expect to find time to learn it's a complex subject.
In terms that people might find easy to understand: on TV, I can't recall when, I saw a programme (maybe BBC) in which it was observed that dogs scan the human face in the same way as humans scan the human face. I don't know whether that's learnt, or genetic, or a mixture (such things are off-topic) but the point I'd like to make is that such eye movements beginning in one place then travelling to other places are very difficult to unlearn.
Side note:
Left gaze bias in humans, rhesus monkeys and domestic dogs (PDF) I have not read it, but it should be informative.
Mutual respect
the comments of someone who has no respect for others and their opinions
In a topic as long and contentious as this, it's easily overlooked (or forgotten) that leman is one of very few people who openly made an effort to increase their understanding of the problems experienced by other people. In the 'Retrospective' part of
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20480268#post20480268, slowly reading from start to finish it's not too long should help to realise the participants' increases in mutual understanding. Not necessarily agreement; just
understanding, and
dedicated activity of two-three very passionate users. I rather see my role here as keeping the things sane by offering an opposite point of view. Which is ultimately a very silly thing to do.
That's not silly. In other situations, I play devil's advocate.
leman, I know that you're normally thorough and suitably balanced. I respect you for
explicitly playing devil's advocate recently
Defocusing from leman: I believe that some of the more extreme disagreements, in topics such as this, are
exaggerated or 'played' in response to things that are debatably trivial. Above, for example, Apple's abandonment of title bars for applications such as Calculator.
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negative votes should be reinstated on here.
Please, let's take that to a more appropriate topic. Something in the 'Site and Forum Feedback' area.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1823601/ seems ideal, I responded there already.
