[Tfug] Yet another OSX "fail" - this one is NOT my fault...

[Zack Williams]

> And that "solution" bites too.  Yes, we tried that, but you basically
> have to go in and out of zoom mode multiple times to get anything
> done.  It blows chunks.

Not when you're trying to read a long serial number or password from
your laptop screen when you're across the room from it. That's about
the only good use I've seen.

And as for Windows, it's totally erratic -  Outlook doesn't change the
size of the address information at the top of each displayed email
message per that setting, but allows you to change all the other font
settings - huge list font, huge body font, tiny everything else.

As for this being the worst font size related crime in OS X, you
haven't tried iCal.  Whereas in Mail, and Address Book you can change
font sizes, iCal's fonts are fixed size.  No changes.  Drives people
nuts.

> By contrast, the zoom-and-scroll thing in OSx is grossly
> non-intuitive.  It's the single worst user interface mistake I've seen
> Apple make since the very early Mac days, when you could manually
> eject a floppy, carry it across the room, crumple it up and you had
> just guaranteed you crashed the OS to hard-boot, because without that
> floppy it was totally dead when it asked for it again.

Manually eject a floppy on an early mac?  What were you using?  Mac
floppy drives never had eject buttons, unless you count the paperclip
hole (or the poorly placed power button on the Centris 610).  The only
time you ejected the boot disk was to swap disks for copying and
storage.    It also was a 3.5" floppy and pretty hard to crumple, even
by today's standards.

- Zack