Re: The Apple IIGS - 25th anniversary!

[Tony Kavadias <tonzaggl@gmail.com>]

On Sep 17, 6:27 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> Tempest wrote:
> >   I wonder how much different things would have been
> > if they had been able to get their hands on a IIgs instead?
>
> You would have gotten tired of using a Mac-imitation machine, and would have
> saved up for the real thing, never looking back again.
>
> :-P
>
> *ducks and runs*
>
> --
> ]DF$
> Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and
> Macintosh computing.http://macgui.com/vault/

[I reckon that] that Mac-immitation was the Apple Human Interface
Design Group's prototyping platform! <grin!>  The Apple IIGS is the
only computer that implemented Apple's official Human Interface on
anything other than a Macintosh.

And some of the more interesting ideas never got transcribed over to
the Mac... one I can remember in particular is the Finder 6's Get Info
window with tabbed views.  Another was the Finder alerts that related
to replacing files on a copy or move operation... I still detest the
way Mac OS X 10.7 deals with this, using buttons that appear in a long
horizontal line rather than a small, square cluster, making buttons a
little harder to reach.  And that "Apply to all" checkbox is certainly
not one of my favourite user interface designs!  It's faster for the
user to click on one of more buttons than it is to click on a
checkbox, then a button.

—tonza