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It says in Lion this is removed but I have the dock attached to the left side and hidden on 10.7.4. When I hover my mouse to make the dock appear, I see a white dot to the left of the icon, indicating the application is running. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vahnx ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
I can't help but feel that the criticism on this page is outdated? The Windows 7 taskbar has the same size and mouse-over-label issues as is criticized here, which gives me the idea that the criticisms are not objective, but rather a reaction to when the interface underwent a change. Althepal ( talk) 20:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Comments copied and pasted from my own Talk page.
I appreciate that you're protective of articles that you have contributed to. However, the entry on Apple Dock is not complete without a mentioning of the Bifocal Display, which is the visualization technique behind it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mads.soegaard ( talk • contribs) 15:46, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
(1) Please stop adding external links to your own website. Accounts that are used solely to add external links to articles, without any actual edits that add content to articles, simply come across as self-promotion and almost inevitably get blocked from editing. Suggest your external links on article talk pages, and if you make a convincing argument, other editors will add them.
(2) Even if the magnification effect in the dock could be tied directly to the work of Spence and Appleby (which I find a stretch at best), that is only one feature of the dock, so claiming that this is the "origin of the dock" is simplistic and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the actual origin of the dock (i.e. it developed from the Nextstep dock which if I recall correctly did not have a magnification feature). AlistairMcMillan ( talk) 02:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Mads,
Could you also please read my comments more carefully.
I didn't call you "simplistic and demonstrating lack of understanding". I called your suggestion that the dock is based solely on the "bifocal display" idea, simplistic and lacking.
I also didn't say that the "bifocal display" idea is just magnification. I said that the magnification feature of the dock is the part that demonstrates the "bifocal display" idea. And the reason I pointed that out is because (i) it is an optional feature of the dock and (ii) it wasn't a feature of the Nextstep dock from which the Mac OS X dock evolved. So your suggestion that this article should link to your website because it explains " the origin of the dock" is false.
External link sections are where people are supposed to go for more information about the content of the article. The "bifocal display" concept isn't mentioned anywhere in the article, it isn't even mentioned anywhere in Wikipedia at all. Neither are Spence and Apperley as far as I can tell. If this is a notable idea, perhaps you should be trying to add an article about the subject, instead of just trying to link to your own website.
Please understand that Wikipedia has a huge problem with people trying to insert links to their own websites to attract traffic. Given that all your edits seem to consist solely of attempts to insert links to your own website, with no attempt to actually add any content to Wikipedia... it doesn't create a very good impression.
If you add your link again, it will be removed. If you do it again without even attempting to discuss it, your account will be blocked from editing. Thank you. AlistairMcMillan ( talk) 20:37, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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