My point was that you can't do the same using Firefox or IE.that's nothing.
My point was that you can't do the same using Firefox or IE.that's nothing.
funny, i could swear i had to type a pathname into safari to get to https://forums.macrumors.com
Did your mac come pre-loaded with links to every website you want to visit? or when you want to get to a new site that you don't have a bookmark for, do you have to play a game of "find the link i want on a page i have a link to already"? amazing.
You can also drag and hover over the browser icon in the Dock and hit Space to bring it to the front.
that's nothing.
you can also open multiple files from an "open" dialog box in Windows.
Or, you can right-click on a file inside an open/save/attach dialog box and rename/copy/move/paste or otherwise manipulate that file without ever leaving the dialog box.
Okay so I have a finder window open and I've browsed to a folder where I've just created a zip file of the contents in that folder.
Now I want to upload that zip file to mediafire.com I click browse from the mediafire page and another finder window pops up so I can select the file to upload. This is where it gets frustrating:
In Windows, I can simply copy the absolute path of the folder where the zip file was created (folder is already open in the background) and paste it into the newly opened prompt window and then choose the zip file that exist there and click open. I'm now done.
In OS X, when the new Finder window pops, I have to browse manually to the zip file, and this especially gets frustrating when the folder is buried deep. Is there any reason why I can't EASILY grab the path of a finder window that's already open and paste that path somewhere else? In other words, There is NO way it seems to type a path to a folder in OS X Finder. You HAVE to freakin' click around for everything!
Does Apple think we're stupid and would always prefer the point n' click?
Oh and I also hate how after updating a file in an application, the file's modify date in finder doesn't get updated until I click on that Finder window.. wtf!?
This is so wrong.In the real world where there are budget and resource constraints, all websites will be build to IE's interpretation of the web standards, then comes FireFox and so on.. Safari is low in the pecking order, but climbing.
Well said. Why have standards if you are not going to follow them.This statement disgusts me and is typical of one thing that is wrong in the web (development) community.
Yep, imagine that.IE's interpretation of web standards has nothing to do with budget and resource constraints. I know because I work in a budget constrained environment with a limited staff, and we develop web apps. The easiest, most cost-effective way to develop is to be standards-compliant, NOT functional to ie-only.
Then, it shouldn't matter what browser someone is using or whether it's the "dominant" browser or some obscure contraption. If it is standards-complaint, it will work. That's generally the embodiment of what it is to have a standard.
And for the record, our apps, which are tested against those standards, and work quite well on ie 7, Firefox and Safari 3. Imagine that.
Very true, OS X open dialog box has no right-click functionality on individual files or folders. A waste IMO. Very often, I want to rename a file right before uploading to MediaFire.
What's even more tiresome (and this coming from a long time windows user) is that some people won't even take the time to read up on the way to do things, google their question (which most of the time can answer the question), or take the time to play around and learn. Then instead of asking a question if still lost, would much rather post a hateful "OSX Sucks if I can't do this, cuz I can do this in Windoze" and post all the task gripes which actually makes them look more foolish more times than not.
This is the concept I think most switchers can't grasp.
My wife is a recent switcher and very computer illiterate. She's more prone to b!tching about how something worked this way in windows and how she can't do the same in OSX but she actually took the time to learn and went "Oh wow! that's so much easier", or "Hmm, that's a nice feature, that's better than this/that." Point being, she hasn't complained about this or that, but rather try to look it up, then come to me "I'm having a hard time doing this, I used to be able to do this, what's the equivilant on my MB" and I would gladly show her.
She did one time say "This sucks, I can't even do that" which I replied "Sure you can and it's easier", she said "How?" and I told her flat out "Google it if your gonna b!tch about it"