Bakey said:
But didn't spring loaded folders make a return in Jaguar? I'm sure they weren't part of the feature list when X was first released!
Don't get me started on stupid bloody spring %^#@ loaded ^#$@ folders!
At least they work better than they did when they first came out:
"Notice as I drag the file onto the folder, it opens for me. But not directly under my cursor, but instead wherever the bounds of the folder were last left when it was last opened, which in this case is half a screen to the left of the edge of the containing folder. Notice that as I try to drag the file into the newly-opened folder, it closes before I can get there, because I've moused off of the containing parent folder and it thinks I've changed my mind."
They still suck though:
"Notice as I drag the file onto the folder, it opens for me, complete with a pause for zoomrecs and in full spectacular GUI. Notice as I drag the file onto a subfolder, it opens for me also. Hmm, this one is set to icon view, you'll notice, and the next subfolder I want to dive into is offscreen, somewhere, perhaps down or perhaps off to the left, who knows? Notice that if I drag to the edge, it will scroll for me and WHOOPSIE, dragged too far, the folder closed thinking I'd changed my mind, let's go back and this time just hover here where it scrolls...ever...so...slowly... just...a...bit... more... THERE! And now this one opens and I let go and
voíla, a mere 55 seconds later I've managed to deposit a file four folder-levels deep!"
And why am I so hostile towards them?
"Notice that stupid irritating spring-loaded folders were a really bad step down from the incredible functionality provided by
PopupFolder, a 3rd-party add-on for System 7 that MacOS 8, with its bloody spring-loaded folders,
broke."
An old review of PopupFolder
Another one
Yes, that's right, the code that created spring-loaded folders broke PopupFolder.
The screen shots don't do it justice. PopupFolder was how the Finder should
be. For one brief glorious couple of years in the late System 7 era, the Finder was
fixed. You could navigate the largest hard drives conceivable, dropping things in 15 or 20 levels deep
or pulling them out from such deeply buried locations with simplicity and ease.
Of all the utilities that Apple should've ever bought out and bundled, this one is the one they shoud've gone after relentlessly. I'd trade iTunes, Widgets, the Dashboard, Exposé, the Dock, built-in SMB, column view, proportional scrollbars, font smoothing, and a huge host of other things if I could get PopupFolder back.
(The OS 8/OS 9 freeware FinderPop gave back some of the PopupFolder functionality but not for dragging files in or out of folders).
