John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

Post by masklinn » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 3:29 PM UTC

malandrew wrote: post #37

masklinn wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages? You can get Ars Premier, buy the ebook or use some sort of stitching reader. Not that I have a problem clicking through 25 pages when each page holds 1000 words and is a self-contained section or a pair of sections . Siracusa pays close attention to pagination in order to pace the article, in my experience of his reviews the page breaks are ac…

Apparently someone needs to do a 25-page review of the W3C HTML spec and link to the section on the Anchor tag for him.

Post by xutopia » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 3:41 PM UTC

rewtraw wrote: post #42

xutopia wrote: post #39

The review doesn't say how long it takes to install once downloaded. Is this a lunch break install or a "wait-till-evening" installation?

I did it during my lunch break ;) "Preparing to install" took 10 minutes (you can still use the system during this time) and the install itself took ~30 minutes on a 2011 MBA. Rebooted right to the desktop with no fuss.

Post by malandrew » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

TechNewb wrote: post #13

gaius wrote: post #5

Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?

They often sell PDFs and ebooks for their major articles.

Post by MatthewPhillips » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #40

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid. The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section.

> His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid. His point is perfectly valid, it's about mnemonics. > The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section. Considering his reviews have both table of contents and fragment identifiers, I'm going to go ahead and assert he knows about those. That does not help remember where you are in the article.

Post by mdonahoe » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 4:02 PM UTC

stephen_g wrote: post #35

nicholassmith wrote: post #2

This is almost the best part of every OS X release.

I have to agree - I love all the technical details in these articles so much that I used to read them in detail long before I switched to the Mac... It was probably the biggest thing that convinced me to change (that, and I wanted a laptop that didn't look and feel like cheap plasticy rubbish, which apart from Apple products were few and far between then).