Frontier 7.1: Unattainable coolness

November 21, 2001

Holy Shit they're actually adding some cool stuff to Frontier 7.1. Just about everything in the Kernel Changes list is cool, but these things stuck out...

    Dock/Tray menu based on a Frontier menubar object. Very cool.

    Buttons in outlines: show configurable buttons at the top of outline windows. Super duper fucking cool.

    Mouse scroll wheel: Cool, but it sucks that Carbon developers have to explicitly support this.

There's still a showstopper bug in Frontier though. I can't afford it. But Dave told me he can't afford me, so perhaps that means we're at a stalemate. D'oh.

It's their loss as far as I'm concerned. I'll just keep writing cool WO/Cocoa/AppleScript stuff. I think I'll release the threaded XML-RPC/Outline-based IM client/server I did in Feb 2000 though, which was about the time I stopped using Frontier. (that's when I stopped working for Macrobyte)