| Suddenly?! This has been a long and gradual transition (not even all that much of a transition), what he wote shouldn’t be surprising to any longtime reader of Gruber. This piece is also mostly about Twitter for Mac, an app that was not developed by Apple. – edit: I found one relevant article from 2004: http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/does_brushed_metal_matter “I’ve been thinking about brushed metal windows and Apple’s inconsistent use thereof at least since Panther shipped a year ago. So, why wait until now to write about it? Well, because I just wasn’t sure it actually mattered. And I’m still unsure.” “This is precisely at the heart of my uncertainty as to whether these brushed metal issues really matter. Maybe it is just aesthetics — merely the color of pixels, rather than how the interface truly works — and I’m looking for serious implications that aren’t there, simply because I happen to think brushed metal windows look stupid.” (Just as a side note, all the articles on Daring Fireball from around that time – about brushed metal, clickthrough and poofing – are in my opinion some of Gruber’s best. I would very much like him to write more about stuff like that.) |