{"id":535782,"date":"2026-07-11T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:27:07","slug":"daring-fireball-mac-os-9s-finder-had-a-view-as-buttons-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535782\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Fireball: Mac OS 9&#8217;s Finder Had a &#8216;View as Buttons&#8217; Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryan.com:<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cView as Buttons\u201d option was a distinctive feature of the<br \/>\nMacintosh OS 9 Finder. It allowed users to view the contents of a<br \/>\nfolder as clickable buttons, each representing a file or<br \/>\napplication. This view was particularly useful for quickly<br \/>\naccessing frequently used programs and documents.<\/p>\n<p>I totally forgot this view existed, despite using Mac OS 9 for many years, because I never used it myself. This didn\u2019t just turn apps into buttons with tiled square backgrounds\u2009\u2014\u2009it turned every item in the file system into a button. I was reminded of it by a reader who used it in theater class in school to turn a folder full of sound files into, effectively, a soundboard app. Cool.<\/p>\n<p>So many of the best UI ideas are little things like this. Sure, most Mac users didn\u2019t want or need this view. But for those who did, they could do something cool with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallprint\">\u2605 Friday, 10 July 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cryan.com: The \u201cView as Buttons\u201d option was a distinctive feature of the Macintosh OS 9 Finder. It allowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-535782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}