Who's got the menu?
My latest Radio conundrum has to do with the menu bar. This is one of the rare (for me) cases in which the Macintosh UI doesn't work as well as the Windows paradigm. When you use Radio, you're really using two applications simultaneously; Radio and a browser (I say "a browser", but I've found that Radio really doesn't work correctly with anything but the latest Internet Explorer). Both applications stay open and I switch back and forth continuously. Radio functions a bit like an enhanced set of bookmarks or favorites, so I open my home page (the local one) from Radio, then edit in the browser window. If I want to do something back in Radio, I have to first make Radio the frontmost application.
This works better in Windows than in MacOS (any version) because Windows doesn't have a menu bar; it has a menu bar in each window. MacOS has a single menu bar at the top of the screen, not graphically connected to any window.
Of course, this would all be solved if you could write and edit in a Radio outliner window and directly pasted into your blog, but as far as I can see, you can't. I'm learning to work as much in the browser window as possible, so I suppose I'll just have to take all those links I grab from Radio and bookmark them. Seems like a lot of extra work. In fact, I'm pretty sure Radio might be able to automatically insert those bookmarks. And as usual, as far as I can see, it can't. That may be the most frustrating thing; that I never have any confidence that I have the real answer to any of these questions.
10:02:21 PM 
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