On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
A number of Mac apps are delivered in disk images configured that way. Firefox has already been mentioned. As I recall, we were also inspired by the disk image for Bare Bones' TextWrangler <http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ >.
I believe the whole origin of this trend was Fetch, or at least, they were the first to write about it: <http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/02/easy-access-to-application-folder-from-a-disk.html >
Of course, I found out about it because the article plugs one of my weekend projects as a core component. :)
And now we're going OT, so I'll stop. Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.com/> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
