{"id":16155,"date":"2009-12-21T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/12\/the-littlest-things.html"},"modified":"2024-07-29T06:59:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:59:36","slug":"the_littlest_things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/the_littlest_things\/","title":{"rendered":"The littlest things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Warning: Contents may cause excruciating boredom.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I switched from Microsoft Entourage (sorry, old friend) to Apple Mail a few weeks ago*, and I&#8217;m almost embarrassed to note my favorite &#8220;feature&#8221;: Mail doesn&#8217;t abusively &#8220;help&#8221; me by inserting a space before pasted text. Entourage would drive me crazy with that behavior, especially when putting URLs between parenthesis.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I loved how Entourage would auto-insert the correct accent when I&#8217;d type &#8220;vis-\u00e0-vis&#8221; (&lt;&#8211;pretentious much? sorry). Maybe more importantly, when I&#8217;d tab from the address field to the message body, Entourage would remember the previously active insertion point in the body text. (Who cares? I care, as apparently I tweak addresses\/subject lines with some frequency.) And Entourage would also keep everybody on the &#8220;To&#8221; line when replying to all.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I boring you with this? Okay, yes, things are a bit quiet in the office today, but I also want you to know that I&#8217;m a perfectionist. I&#8217;m writing up a long and hopefully thoughtful piece about the Photoshop UI (responding to recent <a href=\"http:\/\/mrgan.tumblr.com\/post\/237227166\/slide-different\">posts<\/a>**), and &#8220;sweating the details&#8221; is a big, big deal to me&#8211;and to many of my colleagues. More interesting bits to come.<br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>*Why? By not relying on one giant database, Mail should play better with Time Machine (and, I&#8217;m hoping, be less vulnerable to global freak-outs).<br \/>\n** Let&#8217;s not try to delve into a discussion of those other points yet. Sit tight. I&#8217;m writing a lot.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: Contents may cause excruciating boredom.] I switched from Microsoft Entourage (sorry, old friend) to Apple Mail a few weeks ago*, and I&#8217;m almost embarrassed to note my favorite &#8220;feature&#8221;: Mail doesn&#8217;t abusively &#8220;help&#8221; me by inserting a space before pasted text. Entourage would drive me crazy with that behavior, especially when putting URLs between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22097,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155\/revisions\/22097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}