The way Leopard's Dock supposed to be

So, during the beta stages of Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) there were some key features that Apple decided to add to the new OS, and advertise publicly on their website in order to create buzz and get people excited about the new OS.

One of these features was what Apple calls "Stacks" in the new 3D glassy looking Dock area. Some people love the new dock, and the way the stacks work on the dock, some don't. This article has nothing to do with either side.

Instead I'm going to show everyone the way it was "supposed" to be.
This is not a hack, this Dock was taken from one of the Leopard beta installations that was seeded to developers and beta testers before the official release. Up until the final release of Leopard, this part of the feature was not only present in the beta versions, but was also included in the description of the new Dock features on Apple's website.

In fact, this capability still seems to be present in the current/final release code, at least it still has all the descriptions and settings intact. How to enable the feature? I'm not sure, maybe someone can figure that part out for us. All I know is that the feature is really cool, and useful and I can't for the life of me figure out why it was ever removed or disabled.

If anyone wants to take a swing at finding out how to get this functionality back, I can tell you what I know about it.
First off, it uses the data type of "filestack-tile". I came across this the other day when I saw someone posting about the "spacer-tile" to make blank spacers between dock icons.
I've compared the plist from the old Dock and the new/current Dock and see no differences at all, so I'm assuming the functionality is a hidden option that was on by default in the old Dock, but off by default in the new one. Or simply is disabled completely.

In the meantime, I'll be kicking Apple in the shins and hoping they'll give us this option back.
There was also a major change in the way the folders on the right side of the dock behave, I'll post a video of that later.

NOTE: I DID NOT CREATE THIS VIDEO. I AM SIMPLY MIRRORING IT.

Original Link:
http://kuragari.com/2007/12/03/the-way-it-was-supposed-to-be/

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[SPARTAN118mj]

damn, this is awesome. why did they take this out?

[Koszta666]

How can I replace the original Dock with the beta's Dock?

[SPARTAN118mj]

omg that is awesome. i'm gonna do that tight now

[guitarheroking1234]

you cant put stacks on the left side in leopard hope that answers ur question

[clauclau33]

how'd u do that? havent been able to do that on my leopard-upgraded mac!

[Joeduer93]

whats it like now? hows it different? i havent got leopard so i dont know...

[RichRich250]

how do u do that?

[coldfusion1970]

Wow, i never saw this beta demo.

If thats the case maybe Apple will add this functionality with a 10.5.x update ...

[st4ume1000]

it wasnt his idea, this is actually how the beta's worked.

[coldfusion1970]

Very nice idea.

Some submit the video to Apples feedback page please.