A hidden menu in iTunes 4.0
It doesn't do anything earth-shattering, but I thought it was interesting.
I was trying out the Keyboard Access pref panel, and turned on full keyboard access. After pressing the Menu shortcut, I was looking at iTunes and I found this.
I hadn't seen it reported anywhere, so I don't know if it's a bug, a future feature, or perhaps definitive evidence of the elusive debug code.
What do you all think?
I was trying out the Keyboard Access pref panel, and turned on full keyboard access. After pressing the Menu shortcut, I was looking at iTunes and I found this.
I hadn't seen it reported anywhere, so I don't know if it's a bug, a future feature, or perhaps definitive evidence of the elusive debug code.
What do you all think?
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Also, if others want to see for themselves, you don't have to activate full keyboard access. Just click on the menu and use the left-righ arrow keys to scrub through the menus.
I did notice the other day that, while the Applications menu in iTunes list cmd-, as the Preferences keyboard shortcut, cmd-y still works (which is what it was in iTunes 3). This menu provides some verification for that.
Originally posted by Barto
Mmmmm... WebCore/WebFoundation...
ITMS is not using WebCore.
Originally posted by JLL
ITMS is not using WebCore.
Well how the hell does it render the iTMS? It is HTML, dummy!
Barto
Originally posted by Barto
It is HTML, dummy!
No it's not!
Originally posted by kim kap sol
No it's not!
Fine, it's XML. Somehow, iTunes is rendering XML. Gee, I wonder how?
Barto
Originally posted by agent302
Looks like a 'Music Store Menu'. Home probably takes you to the top level, and forward/back goes forward/back within your Music Store navigation. There probably greyed out because you're not in the music store at the time of the screenshot.
I did notice the other day that, while the Applications menu in iTunes list cmd-, as the Preferences keyboard shortcut, cmd-y still works (which is what it was in iTunes 3). This menu provides some verification for that.
Good call. That's exactly what it does. Just have the music store selected and go to the menu and activate things. Why didn't they put it in a menu item, I wonder...
Originally posted by Barto
Fine, it's XML. Somehow, iTunes is rendering XML. Gee, I wonder how?
Barto
Not by using WebCore - it can't render XML.
This quote is from Rick Roe (The Omni Group):
"These all return documents in a custom XML grammar which bears little resemblance to HTML. So chances are good that the rendering of this stuff is a process completely internal to iTunes, not some preexisting system component. (The iTunes 4 installer doesn't create any files besides the application.) There might still be close ties to QuickTime throughout, but it's at least as likely all the slidey-scrollers and such are just part of iTunes."
Originally posted by torifile
Good call. That's exactly what it does. Just have the music store selected and go to the menu and activate things. Why didn't they put it in a menu item, I wonder...
It's a good question. At least we all know the keyboard shortcuts now. Music Store was frustrating me because I was occasionally hitting cmd-Forward or cmd-Backward. Now, cmd-[ it is!