@grumble209@kolektiva.social @robert@kolektiva.social There were so many awesome ideas in BeOS, that I wish they made their way into other systems today.

Gruber was commenting on a post about how great Apple's TextExit was because of its support for the "stable" RTF format. But he fails to acknowledge that RTF is constantly updated to mirror Word by Microsoft.

The awesomeness of BeOS's StyledEdit was that its files were actual plain text files, and readable by every other system. The "styles" were all saved as extended attributes in the filesystem.