Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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Two points were made that I think were very inaccurate, if somewhat irrelevant:
1. Replace All has a keyboard shortcut in BBedit: command-ctrl-= . Admittedly it doesn't seem to work from the dialogue. While keyboard dialogue navigation in MacOS tends to be a bit underdeveloped or even nonexistent, my opinion remains that Macs have slightly better keyboard shortcuts overall than windows does. Specifically, the most common ones -- save, print, cut, copy, paste behave exactly the same way in every single application. The same cannot be said of windows in my experience.
2. I don't know where you got the impression that Mac IE 5 doesn't do PNG. While imperfect, IE's PNG support on the Mac is a hell of a lot better than it is on windows: it actually does the full alpha transparency which continues to elude IE5 for windows. IE5 for the mac is, in fact, the second-best browser in the world for features and standards-compliance after Mozilla. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html#msie-mac" http://www...