Marcin WicharyMar 9

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either

The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key

Show threadLuke Dorny Mar 9
@mwichary Amazing writeup.
What a dizzying story.
Is it possible the Finder was showing the C type shortcuts with Apples in dropdown menus way back when?
Show threadMarcin Wichary
@Luke No, never on a Mac. That’s what makes it such a self-own imo.
Mar 9 at 5:29pmWeb
Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 9
@Luke Apple GS/OS looked like Mac OS/Finder and they had it there, but only on Apple II computers.
Show threadLuke Dorny Mar 9
@mwichary HA!
Design by committee or administration, then. Every four years it changes, eye-roll.
Love your posts, Marcin.