I used Beyond Compare starting back in my Delphi days when it was notable for being one of a small handful of popular utilities written in Delphi. It’s a fantastic diff tool but man, it looks super rough in dark mode on Mac and I don’t think that’s been ok for awhile now in a dev tool. The “theming” is really bad.
Beyond Compare is really good on Windows; does the Mac version (which from changelogs appears to be a bit different from the Windows one) have actual problems apart from looking "rough"?
Nothing major in the way of other problems—-think the command line utility might have been a little quirky but that was about it.
But for a visual file comparison tool having giant light regions of the screen in dark mode actually affects functionality in a significant way. The “theming” doesn’t actually theme most of the interface chrome so only minor parts of it go dark, at least last I tried it a month ago.
I haven’t tried it in Windows dark mode. Might work better there. On Mac it’s probably using a Lazarus-based widget library, assuming it’s still written in Delphi, and it probably just doesn’t integrate with the system well.
To be clear, I paid Scooter Software for the pro version back in the 90s and about two years ago again. What I’m saying is I’m licensed for it and still have been looking for other apps because it’s not good enough anymore. I’m not just spitballing, unfortunately :(
When the boys were young, I found them all over the house, each alone with their game. So I bought the table, drilled holes in the middle for cable routing, wired a switch and power strip. Put all the household computers on the table.
Now when playing computer games, it was a social event. Instead of silence in dark rooms, they were laughing and talking as they played. Discovered lots of cooperative games, had friends over, LAN parties etc.
These days ('kids' are 30) its a place for laptops when family is home for holidays. Otherwise sometimes I print some complex code and spread it out on the table, mark it up. Or lay out hardware that I'm working on. Or do surgery on a desktop box. Or pile parts waiting for assembly.
Thanks so much for your comment. I've read the original blog post (https://blog.webrecorder.io/2019/08/29/desktop-app.html) and it sounds like a very effective mean of capturing web content. I was not aware there's a standard for web archiving purposes, that sounds like something that would kept being supported in the future. And from what I read it's better than PDF as it captures interactive elements, as well. I will give it a try.
https://github.com/webrecorder
It has a standardized format and acts like a recorder for what you see.