Or at least, it could make sense if applied thoughtfully in certain parts of the interface. I’ll reiterate this until I’m out of breath: it’s not the right approach. Buttons and controls appear when you need them, and they recede when you don’t. We’ve reduced visual complexity to keep the focus on users’ content. Ever since WWDC 2020 this damned quote by Alan Dye (Apple’s VP of Human Interface) has stayed with me, and most of what’s happening on Mac OS and to Mac OS always comes back to it: What Apple has done to Safari 15 is no different. Going through Big Sur’s user interface with a fine-tooth comb reveals arbitrary design decisions that prioritise looks over function, and therefore reflect an un-learning of tried-and-true user interface and usability mechanics that used to make for a seamless, thoughtful, enjoyable Mac experience. 28 pixels for any of the current Mac displays is nothing. Getting rid of the Tab bar with the excuse that you’re saving space is the stinkiest bullshit I’ve ever smelt in a while. The point I’m making with all this pixel peeping is that these are negligible measurements. In both instances, the vertical space taken by the Tab bar is 28 pixel.
#Chrome vs safari mac os high sierra pro#
On my 13-inch retina MacBook Pro running Mac OS Big Sur 11.5 beta and Safari 14.1.2, the total vertical space taken by Safari’s Title bar/Toolbar, Favourites bar and Tab bar is 110 pixels, 82 if you hide the Favourites bar. Especially if you hide the Favourites bar and use Safari in full-screen mode. The 11-inch MacBook Air’s display is only 768 pixels tall, but even in these ‘cramped’ conditions there’s still enough space left to a website for clarity and meaningful navigation. On my 11-inch MacBook Air (running Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra and Safari 13.1.2), the total vertical space taken by Safari’s Title bar/Toolbar, Favourites bar and Tab bar is 86 pixels, 64 if you hide the Favourites bar. The app chrome was shaved away, iteration after iteration, and it seemed it had reached its minimum but still viable footprint. and taken from the Mac OS Monterey Preview webpage.įor years, Safari’s interface has been a good balance between minimalism and functionality. Mac OS will look as young (and foolish, cough) as iOS! Safari’s facelift We’ll make this spectacular facelift and we’ll hide them, one by one. iOS and iPadOS don’t have these strange wrinkles, they muse. Usability cues and features are all wrinkles to them. Its foundations come from a past that almost seems inscrutable to them. These people look at the Mac’s UI and (that’s the impression, at least) don’t really understand it.
Unfortunately the effect is more like this person ends up looking… weird. People who view the venerable Mac OS user interface as an older person whose traits must be experimented upon, plastic surgery after plastic surgery, until this person looks younger. The utter user-interface butchery happening to Safari on the Mac is once again the work of people who put iOS first. Nothing was designed as a Mac-first feature. Nothing was designed specifically with the Mac in mind.
Nothing, to my recollection, was conceived specifically to take advantage of the Mac as a powerful, versatile machine and platform. And Universal Control I’d call an ecosystem feature.
#Chrome vs safari mac os high sierra for mac#
Why was Mac OS left for last at the WWDC keynote? Because essentially, everything new that’s coming in Monterey are features originally devised for iOS and iPadOS devices, and then adapted for Mac OS. Look, the new Apple Silicon chips! Look, new hardware updates! Even redesigned Macs! Whoa, crazy stuff indeed. There has been a wave of pieces written in recent times by pundits who now say that those who believed Apple did not really care about the Mac were wrong. Deal with it, I’m still a Mac user first, the Mac platform is still the one I care most, so I’m giving it precedence over everything else. The dessert is the Mac, of course, and in calling it a dessert I’m trying to give a respectable, polite label to something that was left for last. What’s really worth mentioning, though, is how Apple has screwed up the whole dessert. I will write something about WWDC, if I find an interesting-enough angle that’s worth writing about three or four weeks after the event. Did you eat so well it’s worth leaving a lengthy review online? Not really. But also, frankly, there hasn’t been anything extraordinarily good worth scrambling to write down.ĭon’t get me wrong, plenty of nice things have been introduced at WWDC 2021 across all Apple platforms, but overall it felt like going to a nice restaurant serving you decent food. Well, once again my main job absorbed most of my time and energies. Maybe you’ve wondered why I haven’t written my usual post-WWDC article sharing my observations about the keynote. Introduction: no WWDC-related observations?
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