On a messageboard somewhere, Arn just ran across this impressive screenshot of a MacOS X telnet window, demonstrating more complex translucency and shadowing than we've seen elsewhere. Note the varying degree of shadow under the body of the window vs. the title bar vs. (and this is particularly cool) the text itself. Nice stuff!
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