98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2015
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- More on John's windowing strategy
- Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down)
- DragThing
- Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites
- More on John's windowing strategy
- Marco (mostly) hates new things again
- Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger)
- Marco's new thoughts on his new iPad
- Post-show
- Textshotting
- Boar's Head Pancetta
- Oxford comma
- When to give up on a language
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year and stuff. |
| 0:01.0 | And happy birthday, John Syracuse of 40 years old. |
| 0:04.3 | How's it feel to be an old man, John? |
| 0:05.8 | It's not my birthday today. |
| 0:07.7 | It's the first time I've spoken to you since your birthday. |
| 0:10.0 | It's close enough. |
| 0:11.0 | Beginning the year with the technicality. |
| 0:12.4 | So we have some follow-up. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's talk about John's OS X app window layering policy. |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah, I should have done. |
| 0:21.6 | I should have done a little bit of research of this, but I'll have you do the real-time |
| 0:25.2 | research for me. |
| 0:26.2 | So in our discussion in episode, a couple episodes ago about windows and window management, |
| 0:33.4 | stuff like that, one of the things that didn't come up that probably should have was the |
| 0:38.4 | OS X window layering policy. |
| 0:40.3 | Now, if you've only ever used OS X, you probably just accept this as the way things work because |
| 0:46.4 | it's sort of like how Windows works as in capital W, Microsoft Windows. |
| 0:51.9 | You got a bunch of windows on the screen. |
| 0:53.0 | If you click on a window, that window comes to the front. |
| 0:55.7 | And then you click another window and that window comes to the front of the other ones. |
| 0:59.4 | It changes the window layering changes in that way. |
| 1:02.0 | I know OS X, if you click on the dock icon, all windows from that application come to the |
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