From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T03:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: State of the Onion


On Aug 5, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Phlip wrote:

>>> - I never know what the Home or End keys will do next
>> If they are using the normal Cocoa bindings they go to the  
>> beginning  and end of the document respectively.  It's not Apple's  
>> fault if  application authors go out of there way to change that.
>
> How often do you actually need to do that, compared to the  
> beginnings and ends of lines.
>
> Then, in single-line edit fields, Home and End do nothing.
>
>>> - then I must click twice on a window to use it
>> I have no idea what this means, but it's definitely not  
>> universally  true.
>
> Yet it's still after I must take my hand off the keyboard because a  
> keystroke has taken me to a place where another one can't take me  
> out. Then, the single click may or may not activate the target  
> window, and the second one may or may not send a click event into it.
>
>>> - Alt-Tab can show but can't raise minimized applications
>> Those are not applications, they are windows.  You are assuming  
>> the  application model used on another platform is the same one  
>> used on a  Mac. You are wrong.
>
> So what? They are little colored things that represent big colored  
> things. Some pop up, and some do not, when they are in the same  
> list. "Principle of least surprise" applies, and claiming I somehow  
> don't understand how awesome Macs are is just /Argumentum ad  
> Verecundiam/.
>
> -- 
>  Phlip
>


would you mind taking this off-list?  i happen to agree with a lot of  
your points, but it is light years off-topic.

cheers.

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