Glenn FleishmanAnother banger from @mwichary. His blog and articles on UI/UX and keyboards continue to just hit it out of the park. This one on the Fn key told me more about a key I've used for decades than I ever knew. https://aresluna.org/fn/ Plus, a lot of good ranting.
Jack Wellborn@glennf @mwichary Only tangentially related, but it's crazy to think that Apple released hardware and documentation for “alternative operating systems.” School aged Mac using me had no idea what these keys were for, because I believe many of them did nothing in Classic Mac OS. On the plus side, introducing Control to the Mac turned out to be great when Mac OS X came along 15 years later with its UNIX terminal.
Marcin Wichary@jackwellborn @glennf Oh, I forgot about this spread! That’s really great.
Steve BarnesThat's a pretty good tangent; I had no idea the function keys were introduced to the Mac in association with that notion. (And a decade later, it seems official enough that Phil Schiller's "requiem" for the Mac's function keys didn't take.)
@Starfia @jackwellborn Can you say more about that requiem reference?
@Starfia @jackwellborn Ah, that was Touch Bar, right? (That was a decade ago? Jesus Christ.)
That's it; at 34:05 here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA8vDBY6bCs&t=34m5s
(Heck, that even comes as a direct segue from the also-extinct butterfly keyboard. Rewatching this, I actually get the sense their aim at the time was for both to become normal across Macs.)
