One of the standout features was the Dock, which was introduced in Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah. The Dock didn’t always look the way it does now; at first, it was just a row of plain square icons.

Web developer and interface designer Michael Hüneburg, rebuilt the standard OS X dock using CSS3 animation and including reflections, bounce effects, labels. He also used some additional icons ...

The Windows counterpart is the Taskbar (see Win Taskbar). Introduced with Mac OS X, the Dock's icons are slightly animated. As the cursor is moved along the Dock, the icons are magnified creating ...

Two monitors can be connected to the dock in extended mode, although just one external monitor is supported when used with Apple Mac M1/M2 computers. Users can use two HDMI ports simultaneously or ...

Thomson refused and ultimately quit his job before the Mac OS X Dock was completed. Another engineer rewrote it for the final release of Mac OS X. Even though Thomson didn’t stay at Apple ...