Appearance modes and the effects of Accessibility settings exhibit different behaviours in Tahoe, compared with Sequoia. Illustrated in a simple app.
Dark Mode
Now ignores spaces and hyphens in hashes, and converts them to lower case. Also improves readability in dark mode, within limits.
A full toolset for working with extended attributes, everything you might want to know about files, and a text-only Rich Text editor, all ready for Tahoe.
The journey from single-document and basic styles, through the lightweight word processor brought to Mac OS X from NeXT.
User content shouldn’t have its colours changed according to the appearance mode. So why do TextEdit and QuickLook thumbnails change custom text colours?
It’s exactly 5 years since Apple released Mojave, with its many major changes. macOS 14 should bring fewer shocks to the system than 10.14 did.
For 34 years, Macs were known for rendering black text on a white background. Then came Dark mode, and five years later some apps still can’t cope with it.
A new version of this Rich Text editor now remembers its appearance mode, and uses that as the default mode for documents too.
You preview a major Rich Text document, which QuickLook shows as completely empty. Has something terrible happened, or is it just a four year-old bug?
In the original JPEG image, the yellow and red are clearly distinguishable. By the time they’ve been rendered, they are hard to tell apart. Unless you’re colour-blind.
The Eclectic Light Company 