[DM-MUG] NYT, 5-26: "Ground Rules for the Windows-Macintosh War"

Victoria L. Herring dmmug@dmmug.org
Fri, 27 May 2005 00:24:05 -0500


>On May 26, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>
>>>   I would also instance love being able to delete from the dialog 
>>>box within an application without having to go to the desktop and 
>>>delete it.
>>
>>I do this all the time with contextual menus...Control and click on 
>>item and 'Move to Trash', or else I may not understand.
>
>From within the standard open/save dialog in Windows, one can do all 
>sorts of file manipulation that can't be done in an open/save dialog 
>on a Mac. It's one of the few places where Windows "does it better".

I have Fruit Menu and Default Folder and between them there are lots 
of manipulations that work [in Tiger] but then I have no way to 
compare that to WIN machines so certainly am not saying it's 
better...works for me tho.
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