![]() ![]() These widgets came with guidelines for how they should be sized and placed, something which is missing from a lot of modern UI toolkits. On the other hand, Mac OS 8 came with a fresh batch of standardized widgets (Appearance Manager) which made all the apps look better. I remember the Mac OS 8 era as a bit of “excess” that got cleaned up somewhat with the arrival of Mac OS X. ![]() This often meant that controls which were supposed to be visible would be partially covered by another window’s border. Worse, a bunch of applications had code that would set up window locations with the assumption that the window borders were 1 pixel wide, like they were prior to Mac OS 8. Modern Mac OS X is actually quite efficient, with zero-pixel window borders on three sides, and narrower scroll bars. Try running at a more modest 800圆00 or 640x480 and it will seem less efficient. The fat borders for the windows and the control strip at the bottom left of the screen took up a lot of space on real monitors of the era. ![]()
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