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Article #26283Re: Pull down menus.
From: Jef Poskanzer
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1988 14:23
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1988 14:23
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In the referenced message, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) wrote:
}One more advantage: they don't take up valuable screen acreage. On
}small (low resolution) screens, this is a big advantage.
Yeah, small low-resolution screens like the Macintosh's! Pop-ups would
have been a big win on the Mac. So why did Jobs' crew go for pull-downs?
N.I.H. perhaps -- they had to change something to make themselves feel
useful.
}Having using both kinds quite a bit, I find popup menus easier, and
}certainly faster, than pull-down (drop-down, window-shade, whatever)
}menus.
Ya got that right.
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Jef
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who do.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!hoptoad!ptsfa!well!pokey From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Pull down menus. Message-ID: <5421@well.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 88 14:23:43 GMT References: <762@sandino.quintus.UUCP> Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 19