African Lions
After marvelling at the interface of Apple’s Safari for a while and trying to fathom how it could work without a menu bar, I suddenly realize why it doesn’t have a menu bar. I feel like an idiot.
After marvelling at the interface of Apple’s Safari for a while and trying to fathom how it could work without a menu bar, I suddenly realize why it doesn’t have a menu bar. I feel like an idiot.
You make it sound like you have a Mac.
And if you do, congrats.
If you don’t, congrats.
Nope, it’s just that a lot of web designer people use Safari because they all have Macs and many of their screenshots are in Safari. I’ve never seen a menu bar in Safari and wondered why it wasn’t there until I realized that the menus were always at the top and not inside the window.
*nods* — i think its hard to say which one is better — by preference and perhaps my deep immersion of x86 world particularly windows… i’d think individual bars would b better.
then again it also in a sense, is a waste of system resources to redraw multiple bars that say the same FILE EDIT VIEW etc.. especially when now a days we (more technical ppls) wouldn’t really use the task bar for much anyways — all about shortcuts and if necessary the right mouse button… tho in a way i guess its good — if you ever forget that footnotes is ctrl + alt + f you can just go through several menus to get to them :p
all preference vs performance i guess sorta like QWERTY vs DVORAK
I don’t have a taskbar right now. Looking back, I can’t seem to wonder why I thought I needed one. The app switcher menu (kind of like the Mac one) is working better than the taskbar, actually.
I believe that the menu bar thing came out of a discussion on another blog about why Mac users are less likely to maximize their windows like us PC dwelling folk, which was borne out of a discussion about whether or not we should still design our sites for 800×600.