mpw said:
I wondered how long it would take for someone to come out in absolute defense of Mac OSX.
Yes, MPW, you hit cork. I'm a fanboy troll.
I don't defend OS X in any absolute sense. I didn't even use it until mid-cycle Panther.
There are things I think it doesn't do well; I've stated them here many times (for instances, Finder's implementation of single session only burns of CDRs, incompatibility of the WebDAV implementation with other popular implementations, etc). I do think there's something to be said for creating a consistent, sensible operating system, though, rather than running like mad to implement every UI aspect that a few people consider useful.
I navigated menus in Windows the same way the OP describes. I still do when I use Windows.
To be honest, it only very rarely bothers me in OS X that this feature doesn't exist. And boo...it only *ever* bothers me in Microsoft Office, and even then, it was significantly reduced by the way 2004 does things, since many of the things I did this way (like Paste Special) now have much better and more intuitive methods that don't use the menu bar at all.
And of course, you conveniently deleted the part where I offered a practical solution to the original problem.
Of which there has been relatively little in this thread.