Patrick Roy writes, “I’ve been working with Transmit for a couple of days now. Excellent ftp client for OS X. Today I noticed a neat feature with the file / directory date. The format changes dynamically according to the space available.”
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Patrick Roy writes, “I’ve been working with Transmit for a couple of days now. Excellent ftp client for OS X. Today I noticed a neat feature with the file / directory date. The format changes dynamically according to the space available.”
Nick
on 01 Aug 07you never noticed the finder does the same thing?
Joshua Blankenship
on 01 Aug 07Yep, Transmit mimics what OS X already does. One of the reasons I love Transmit is that it never feels very far removed from the way the OS behaves.
Lee
on 01 Aug 07I noticed this a few weeks back and was amazed! I went around telling everyone, but they didn’t find it nearly as cool as I did :)
Zach
on 01 Aug 07Yeah, I noticed this in Mail.app a few years ago. Very nice.
Kyle Pike
on 01 Aug 07I remember a time long ago when I realized shift+tab tabbed to the left. I had never wondered what the left facing arrow meant on the key. As you can imagine, my brilliance was ridiculed instead of praised.
Tiago
on 01 Aug 07Erm… Have you never used Finder?
What a lame post, lol.
Seth Thomas Rasmussen
on 01 Aug 07Ah, right.. I remember FTP.
John
on 01 Aug 07Since this dynamic date format apparently shows up in quite a few apps, it wouldn’t be too surprising if it’s a feature of the Cocoa framework. Anybody know?
Dan Boland
on 01 Aug 07As much as I love Transmit, I have to say that v3 is a hell of a lot buggier than v2 ever was. For instance (and this is something that drives me crazy), I often have to change file permissions after a transfer. In v2, when I would hit Get Info, the focus would be on the text input field for the permission value. I’d type in the new permission value and hit Enter. In v3, the focus is on one of the collapsing arrows (WTF?!), so I have to click into the text field, select all, then type the value and hit Enter. I have other gripes about Transmit, but that “feature” is the most irritating.
Ruben
on 01 Aug 07Patrick Roy, cool. He’s got Stanley Cups in his ears.
Ryan
on 01 Aug 07John, this is not a standard feature in any of the stock UI widgets in the Cocoa framework. Developers have to include in manually.
eli
on 01 Aug 07OK, now can they make it so it follows the only standard for time like databases do? You know, the one that starts with the most significant value and works its way down to the most minuscule? I’m of course referring to ISO 8601, the most beautiful ISO spec ever. I never have to worry about euro/american translation of dates when I use 8601.
michael schurter
on 02 Aug 07By FTP I hope you mean SFTP (either the SSL/TLS or SSH flavor). Its time for old, insecure, poorly designed, FTP to die (ASCII transfer mode? wtf?).
I thought OSX could mount remote servers via FTP like Gnome, KDE, and FUSE can in Linux. If so, why use a 3rd party FTP client?
Terry
on 02 Aug 07@Tiago Nice for Windows users to see how the other half lives. They have to accept some real trash as far as window organisation and file browsing go
@michael schurter Transmit is an excellent piece of software with a fine interface and fits perfectly in the Mac developer workflow thats why.
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