.Mac Bookmarks

buonrottobuonrotto
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Maybe I missed the memo, but I just noticed this new feature on the .Mac pages:



http://bookmarks.mac.com/



It explains the weird little picture we saw of this in the earlier .Mac upgrade.



This is terribly useful to me at least. I'm using it right now on WinXP. I just leave the little window up, and I can get my bookmarks or my webmail, and create new bookmarks as I come across them and have them at home too.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    johnqjohnq Posts: 2,763member
    Does it look correct in Windows Internet Explorer? Could you please post a screenshot of it in Win IE?



    I ask because the UI uses .pngs with transparancy which have not usually worked in Windows Internet Explorer.



    I'm only looking at it through Safari. I would imagine they might send a different one without pngs using a server browser check.



    Just curious...thanks
  • Reply 2 of 5
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Looks OK, it uses the pinstripe background for the toolbar, standards Windows widgets for the window and scrollbars, folders show up as OS X folder icons, all bookmarks use the "default" bookmark icon next to them, and all the pictures and backgrounds are .gifs instead of pngs.



    [EDIT] The third window in the pic below looks just like the window on my PC since I can't use Luna (admin locked me out of that display pref anyway). The second looks like either a de-metalized Safari window in Panther or Camino in Panther -- something in Panther anyway.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    frawgzfrawgz Posts: 547member
    Credit goes to nichrome over at MacRumors for this pic:



    http://maczsoftware.com/blogs/lkieks...cbookmarks.jpg
  • Reply 4 of 5
    johnqjohnq Posts: 2,763member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by frawgz

    Credit goes to nichrome over at MacRumors for this pic:



    http://maczsoftware.com/blogs/lkieks...cbookmarks.jpg



    Thanks both. Fraw, do you know what the middle one is?

    ...



    Yup, just as I thought. For some odd reason (no doubt related to squashing other companies' technologies) pngs in IE do not use transparency, WHich is tragic from a UI point of view. You can make rich, gorgeous web UIs with smartly layered .pngs, which Apple has done for "our" bookmark window. See as you resize the window widthwise the darker shadow on the left and right of the metal also expand? This is a nice shadowed graphic scaling at 100%. But, on WinIE, it would have shown as a solid grey chunk I think, obscuring everything below it.



    (This is all aside from whether you or I or anyone likes fancy graphics or prefers simple flat colors over "bloat"...)



    There was even a petition online for Microsoft to enable transparent pngs...to no avail yet:



    http://www.petitiononline.com/msiepng/petition.html



    It must be even more moot since they stopped making a standalone IE even on Windows...what the?



    So....just one more little reason why Macs are nicer....proper png support.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    frawgzfrawgz Posts: 547member
    The middle one is a Camino window, I believe. Apparently if the browser is Safari, it will use the brushed metal scheme instead of the default Aqua stripes.
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