Linked List: May 27, 2005

Friday, 27 May 2005

Brent Simmons on Mail’s New Toolbar ★: He thinks the reason is that Apple is moving toward toolbar buttons that look like, well, buttons — as opposed to the original Aqua style of toolbar buttons that just look like icons — but that the monochrome toolbar buttons like those in Safari and Dictionary wouldn’t work in Mail. I agree. But the unmentioned downside is that it’s further evidence that Apple’s UI design in the Mac OS X era is too trendy. That most people agree that even Mac OS X 10.2 now looks dated is proof.
BBEdit PHP Function Parameter Auto Complete ★: Alan Storm has created a function-parameter auto-complete utility for PHP programmers who use BBEdit.
The Mac Startup Sound ★: Jim Reekes on the creation of the Mac startup chime. (Thanks to Anil Dash, guest-posting at Kottke.org.)