Dustin Mierau on Nostr: I wonder if Apple should bring back menus that you can rip off. You could do this in ...
I wonder if Apple should bring back menus that you can rip off.
You could do this in HyperCard and MacPaint in like System 6 which I genuinely found useful, but those menus were essentially utility windows in disguise.
But! You could also do this in Rhapsody with *any* menu. They killed it at some point before releasing Mac OS X. I recall there being APIs related to this feature in early versions of AppKit.
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