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A brief history of alerts

Summary by eclecticlight.co
From the early days of Classic Mac OS, Apple has gone to great pains to explain and document its human interface, from menus to alerts, originally termed alert boxes rather than windows. These were a special type of what it termed modal dialog box, and were, no doubt to the distress of Larry Tesler, strictly modal in behaviour. In single-tasking Mac OS, they didn’t allow the user any escape to another app, and the only way to close them and move…
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eclecticlight.co broke the news in on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
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