Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Apple's claim on GUI techniques Message-ID: <1991Mar21.131921.15981@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 21 Mar 91 13:19:21 GMT References: <1991Mar19.204622.4797@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 55 In article <1991Mar19.204622.4797@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > Well, I don't know about "slavish copy," but here's the list of > interface items still under contention (from MacWeek). I leave it to > each of you to judge the merits of them: > 1. Overlapping windows. Predates Mac. > 2. Windows appearing partly on and off screen. Predates Mac. > 3. Windows brought to top when selected. That's a bug, not a feature. > 4. Active top window. That's a bug, not a feature. > 5. Gray outline of windows dragged along with cursor. But the Mac doesn't do that! It uses a moving dashed line. > 6. Window redrawn in new position. Predates Mac. > 7. Newly exposed areas on screen displayed after window is moved. Predates Mac. > 8. Movable icons. Predates Mac. > 9. Icons displayed behind open windows. Predates Mac. > 10. Icon titles. Predates Mac. > Every single one of those concepts listed are TOTALLY and completely > obvious. No, the business about popping a window to the top and activating it when you click on it is a genuine Apple innovation. The rest existed in the Star. And it's a bug, not a feature, at that! -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .