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  • Oct 22, 2005
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  • 1) I think it's important to try to support websites/services that young people use, the myspace/tribes/flickr/chatroom/videochat crowd. Currently Safari does not support some of these. This is probably a problem with sites using Microsoft-specific code in some cases, but even when the sites use Java (yahoo chat) they don't work properly on the Mac. This is basic and popular stuff... In the cases where the site uses microsoft specific stuff, Apple should work with Microsoft or pay the site to re-engineer it -- if it's a sufficiently popular site that is. 2) Use some of their cash to pay a game developer to make sure that cool game X is available on OSX. Recently Macs have been threatened with being shut out of online gameplay due to some issue with gamespy. Apple may have enough power to resolve this, and they should try. 3) Make the key shortcuts work as well as in windows. Make them configurable, and have one-button click to make them emulate the windows equivalents. 4) Improve the "feel" of speed. I think OSX actually is fast, but it "feels" slow. One person pointed out that the mouse moves more slowly by default. The windows also wait until they're ready before doing anything, whereas in Win/Linux they start flickering immediately. Flickering is bad, but maybe there is some other way to give immediate feedback. 5) Tabs in the finder: open sub-folder in new tab.
    bozoface had this to say on Oct 10, 2005 Posts: 2
    How Could OS X Be Improved?
  • Actually I think part of the slow switching speed may be intentional! Try apple-tab switching between two apps repeatedly. It looks to me like the windows switch nearly instantly, but the translucent apple-tab icons take about 1/2 second to fade out, giving the impression that it takes a while. It reminds me of maybe 10 years ago when PC magazines would compare scrolling speed in PageMaker, without knowing or mentioning that the scrolling speed on the classic text widget was intentionally limited, to help people keep their context. Still, Apple should kill this "feature" if it make people think the machine is slow!
    bozoface had this to say on Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 2
    What I�d Like to See in Tiger: Part 1, Speed