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A secret project, a stubborn developer, and a lot of glossy icons: here's the story behind macOS’s Dock as it turns 25
The Dock's origin story goes something like this: Back in the late 1990s, Apple was building a new operating system, Mac OS X, to replace its older system, Mac OS 9. One of the standout features ...
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Mac OS X Dock Built Using CSS3
Web developer and interface designer Michael Hüneburg, rebuilt the standard OS X dock using CSS3 animation and including reflections, bounce effects, labels. He also used some additional icons ...
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Mac Dock
The Windows counterpart is the Taskbar (see Win Taskbar). Introduced with Mac OS X, the Dock's icons are slightly animated. As the cursor is moved along the Dock, the icons are magnified creating ...
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25 years ago, Steve Jobs changed the path of the PC forever
The Dock made its debut that day ... Apple app that would be included free with Mac OS X. He seems especially giddy about the fact that the app knows who you’ve emailed with and will suggest ...
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A secret project, a stubborn developer, and a lot of glossy icons: here's the story behind macOS’s Dock as it turns 25
Thomson refused and ultimately quit his job before the Mac OS X Dock was completed. Another engineer rewrote it for the final release of Mac OS X. Even though Thomson didn’t stay at Apple ...