Scripting News: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025 Until further notice dissent is an act of patriotism, support of and belief in our country. # Bill Atkinson and QuickDraw # Bill Atkinson died two weeks ago today. # I was explaining to a friend why he was so important. Most people who know of him know about MacPaint and Hypercard , both were fantastic contributions to the evolution of personal computers. But underneath all that he created a layer of the Macintosh OS called QuickDraw , which was a core innovation of the Mac, its graphic system . Every piece of software that ran on the Macintosh ran on top of QuickDraw. # Here's what QuickDraw is. Software could do things at the pixel level, a dot so small it's barely visible to the eye. What you're seeing on the screen is made up of collections of those dots, forming lines, boxes, ovals and text, and later page layouts, beautiful photography, and the text you're reading right now. The software that does...