14 February 2003

Angström Leap

So this is it? Jef Raskin’s revolutionary interface is a text editor that displays special characters for spaces and tabs when the cursor is over them, and has a vi-like Mozilla-like basically-Unix-like functionality to search text? Whoa. How revolutionary. You know, when they said most of the Mac’s interface was pretty much stolen from research at Xerox’s PARC, I think they may have been right. All they need now is someone else to borrow ideas from. Might be a good thing Raskin doesn’t work for Apple anymore…

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