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pieter said 8:15PM on 8-14-2006
I like the idea of searching a web page more quickly and easily. I press 'command+f' a lot as it is. It seems to resemble Firefox though...hmm... it seems someone else bought a photocopier...
Still, It's cool how the term glows in an eye-catching orange as you press the arrow.
But, the hovering purple arrow is a little much. It would be nicer if the menu item just changed color and you could just press enter/return to select the command for which you were looking.
I wish the clip was a little longer and showed a little more of the whole feature so we could determine fully if this will be a useful feature.
Nevertheless, it seems Apple has a lot up their sleeves, and we can expect some cool things come next spring.
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damonlaw said 8:45PM on 8-14-2006
Popup Video arrows.. not cool. What happened to the spotlight highlight!? I prefer that solution much more.
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Thomas said 8:52PM on 8-14-2006
I'm not sure I like the hovering arrow, the fact that it's such a horrible purple is even worse.
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Suds said 9:09PM on 8-14-2006
Frankly, the floating purple arrow doesn't look very 'Apple' like, and as much as I'm sure there are some real leaks out there, I'm not trusting any just because well... it's more fun to fabricate something in order to make us mac fanboys (and girls) cry then it is to actually post something real and violate an NDA.
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Matt said 9:11PM on 8-14-2006
the help spotlight-like search thing is ugly, but the actual text-search itself is beautiful.
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Tourian said 9:13PM on 8-14-2006
The purple floating bar is horrible, but not when you factor in the fact that it's trying to tell people "YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THIS!!".
If people didn't want a big colorful arrow telling them what to press they wouldn't be asking the help menu for it.
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Nate said 9:39PM on 8-14-2006
Suds: I can tell you this is really a screencast of Leopard Preview, and I doubt he/she broke any NDA, ahem. Safari 3 and Mail are the two things in Leopard Preview that look good already.
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Tek said 10:32PM on 8-14-2006
That purple arrow is.....OK, jarring. If it doesn't move that fast in real life, then I can see some people like my folks liking it. Indeed, it says, "Look at me!" .....but am I the only person who thinks the purple is pretty and cute? ...Probably so.
Does anyone know if NDA violators (?) have been tracked/prosecuted before for this sort of thing?
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Robert said 11:30PM on 8-14-2006
While I do think the purple is an ugly design element, remember that we're looking at a large time span from Preview 1 to Gold. I'm guessing this will very likely change (remember how in the leaked Tiger info the spotlight icon wasn't an icon at all--the entire upper-left hand corner of the menu bar was blue?). This is still a very early release; the technology is what they're probably testing at this stage, not the UI.
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michel said 11:48PM on 8-14-2006
the purple thing is nice and pretty.
and EASY TO SPOT you cyber-eyes young lucky people.
it's like spotlight (or omniweb adress bar): a special text input widget so at last it is easy to spot.
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Travis Bell said 12:30AM on 8-15-2006
RE: breaking teh NDA... I wouldn't be too concerned about that ever since the DVD popped up online. We can all experience this stuff ourselves now, so no big deal.
The inline search implementation in Safari is freakin' HOTT though.
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Steven Fisher said 12:30AM on 8-15-2006
The text search results interface is beautiful. I've been asking for an update to the interface for within-document-search for a while.
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Biff said 9:10AM on 8-15-2006
Was that a different mouse cursor?! Will we finally have the ability to change it without downloading stuff?!?
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Jake Spurlock said 11:25AM on 8-15-2006
The find function is cool, but my favorite new feature is the RSS reader in Mail. It has a beautiful new layout and design. Hands down, the best feature. Spaces is great too...
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CyBeR said 8:08PM on 8-16-2006
The help stuff is real. It works pretty nicely. And about it being purple-- the Spotlight thing was only available in Blue in the tiger previews. I'm sure this will change to look like something that belongs in there more.
Oh and no, you can't change the cursor. It's probably the screencast software doing that. (Why would you want to change the cursor though? The thing can only get uglier as the current one is simplicity itself).
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