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Nothing to see here, folks. Move along...
Authored by: Kool on Nov 07, '05 07:00:08AM

Just a NSTextView with the "graphics allowed" checkbox set. The "editable" checkbox is apparently selected as well, so it accepts drag. It shouldn't, but it's not a very big deal, as the view's content is never saved anyway.

I am quite surprised this gets through as a hint! It's a little bug, it doesn't even remotely qualify as a hint!



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Authored by: wkoffel on Nov 07, '05 08:23:20AM

As per my other comment, this view is not an NSTextView, but a WebView. In theory, they could have subclassed it to explicitly disallow any external content. But probably not so much a bug as an unintended feature.



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Authored by: robg on Nov 07, '05 09:14:43AM

If I think something's interesting and might be of interest to more people, I tend to run it.

In this case, I showed this little 'bug' to three or four people on iChat. All of them found it intriguing, so I felt it worth sharing.

-rob.



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Authored by: exu on Nov 07, '05 10:29:04AM

I happen to like it when such things are posted. This made my morning space out and cup of coffee that much more enjoyable. Thanks for posting this "bug".



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Authored by: Kool on Nov 08, '05 07:31:35AM

Perhaps it looks intriguing at first sight, and it some cases unintended features can make for great uses, but really, we have multitasking in OS X now. We can use QT player as usual, also when we are running an update. There is no gain in usage or usability from this hint.

It's hints like this that makes me feel less and less interested in this site. You used to have such cool tricks to do really amazing things, or that unravelled some hidden features. Apparently all of those have been discovered by now... :-) You still run some nice hints, but the frequency of silly hints unfortunately is on the increase... just my € 0,017.



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Authored by: sdunlapa on Nov 08, '05 12:36:39AM

Kool...ur...just so Kooool. But this "HINT" is even kooler!



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Authored by: Kool on Nov 08, '05 07:19:20AM

What a silly remark! "Kool" just happens to be my surname. That it also happens to have a cool factor in English is just coincidence.

Johan Kool



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Authored by: PlxoGuy on Nov 09, '05 08:10:30PM

Can we take a moment and enjoy a cute little quirk here, instead of cybergeek ourselves to death. That's the reason most of us got macs, right. Try something like that on Windows and the crazy thing would probably blow up.



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