{"id":543751,"date":"2026-07-11T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:49:08","slug":"daring-fireball-squircle-jail-isnt-or-at-least-shouldnt-be-about-upcoming-touchscreen-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543751\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Fireball: Squircle Jail Isn&#8217;t (Or at Least Shouldn&#8217;t Be) About Upcoming Touchscreen Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another bit of follow-up on squircle jail on MacOS. The most-asked question in my inbox from readers is this: Is mandating the squircle a concession to the much-rumored upcoming touchscreen MacBooks?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>The visible shape and appearance of an app icon is unrelated to its clickable\u2009\u2014\u2009or, perhaps soon, tappable\u2009\u2014\u2009area. Rendering a visible squircle doesn\u2019t change the shape of the clickable\/tappable target area around an icon. In the bygone days when MacOS permitted delicious app icons\u2009\u2014\u2009and Apple crafted delicious icons for its own apps\u2009\u2014\u2009you could click in the middle of, say, the QuickTime Player icon and it just worked. It would have been pretty nutty if it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/quicktime-player-hole.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the old QuickTime Player\u2019s \u201cQ\u201d icon, with a transparent hole.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"smallprint\">\u2605 Friday, 10 July 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another bit of follow-up on squircle jail on MacOS. The most-asked question in my inbox from readers is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-543751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}