{"id":426,"date":"2009-10-06T03:39:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T08:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2009-10-06T03:43:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T08:43:54","slug":"yum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/06\/yum\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Yum!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I give Microsoft’s current Mac software<\/a> some shit<\/a>, but I think it’s deserved. So it’s only fair I mention their glory days.<\/p>\n

From “Classic” Mac OS 8.1<\/a> in 1998 through Mac OS X 10.2<\/a> Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (for Mac)<\/a> was the default web browser Apple chose for Mac OS<\/strong>. The very fist iMac? It came with IE:mac, just like the first version of Mac OS X.<\/p>\n

And IE:mac wasn’t so bad, for it’s era. (It was the first browser to have color correcting PNGs, by the way!) There was one really neat feature that I think is worth calling out: it would match your iMac’s color, automagically.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technical Details That I Only Half Remember<\/h3>\n

If you have a better understanding of how this worked, please let me know!<\/strong> I couldn’t find any details online. Mostly, I’m writing down what I remember before I forget.<\/p>\n

The poorly named Gestalt<\/a><\/code> function lets you check information about the Mac OS runtime, like “what version of Mac OS is this?<\/a>“. You pass it a FourCharCode<\/code><\/a>, and replies with a 32-bit value or an error code — old stuff from the “Classic” Mac OS days.<\/p>\n

There was an undocumented<\/em> code, 'yum!'<\/code> 1<\/sup>, that returned the color of an the iMac or iBook case. IE:mac would check this when it first started, and choose a color scheme to match the operator’s Mac. It was a seamless personal touch that really impressed me.<\/p>\n

It’s the sort of thing I’d like to see more of on today’s multi-colored iPods and iPhones.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>It might have been 'Yum!'<\/code>, I don’t remember exactly, and Gestalt()<\/code> returns gestaltUndefSelectorErr<\/code>, -5551<\/code>, for all of variations on my MacBook Pro under Snow Leopard.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I give Microsoft’s current Mac software some shit, but I think it’s deserved. So it’s only fair I mention their glory days. From “Classic” Mac OS 8.1 in 1998 through Mac OS X 10.2 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (for Mac) was the default web browser Apple chose for Mac OS. The very fist iMac? It came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,203,3,4],"tags":[304,305,420,113,453,96],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-iphone","category-macosx","category-programming","tag-color","tag-history","tag-internet-explorer","tag-mac","tag-memories","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}