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TJ Draper
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@daringfireball “by 2011 it had long been the case that users could resize windows in two dimensions starting from any corner, or in one dimension starting from any edge of the window.”
Lion was actually the first version of Mac OS X that allowed resizing from any side of a window. Previously, windows could only be resized from the grippy-strip.
I think they dropped the affordance to not imply that resizing could still only happen from that corner.
I also think it was wrong-headed to drop it.
@gedeonm I don’t have this option on my 2020 iPad Pro with iPad OS 26 Public Beta… I’m guessing my iPad is too old 😞
Why is it so much harder to write something again after your computer or program or whatever lost it? (don't ask)
@bobmagicii FireWire support on non-Apple stuff was always a pain, though doable. And worth doing in the film industry if you weren’t a Mac shop. But most small films shops were Mac shops back in my day in the industry so…
@ramsey As HD data got bigger and 4K started making it’s debut, eSATA started being a thing for a while. The last few projects I did were on eSATA external hard drives. Unfortunately I got out of the film industry before Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt blows it all away. I’ve done _some_ small personal video editing on Thunderbolt drives, it’s great.
I also understand USB 4 may resolves some of the long-standing issues with editing films on USB external drives, but I wouldn’t know 🙃
@ramsey Nope. USB 2.0 was great in certain ways, but for those of us needing to edit films on big external hard drives (and other things, but that was the use-case in the industry I was in), USB 2.0 just didn’t cut it. USB 2.0 had a slightly higher theoretical speed but in practice it was much slower and couldn’t handle the demands of constant high data rate transfer. FireWire’s streaming architecture faired much better (and then, of course, FireWire 800 speeds blew USB away again).
FireWire heavily influenced the development of the Thunderbolt spec and made SO much possible that USB just couldn’t do at the time. Rest in peace, FireWire.
Talk about the end of an era. I’m sad about this even though I haven’t used FireWire in several years. I have all the Thunderbolt to FireWire adapters and MANY FireWire hard drives in my office closet.
I edited MANY films, documentaries, promos, short-form content, long-form content, you name it, on FireWire hard drives on various Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, PowerMacs, and Powerbooks.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/22/macos-26-tahoe-beta-drops-firewire-support
Steve Jobs philosophy: don’t skate to where the puck is, skate to where it will be.
Cook’s philosophy: HOLD THE PUCK HERE AT ALL COSTS DO NOT ADAPT TO THE MARKET OR WHAT PEOPLE WANT STRANGLE THE MARKET