{"id":28,"date":"2007-07-04T06:22:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-07-04T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T14:22:39","slug":"window-resize-apple-are-you-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/window-resize-apple-are-you-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Window resize &#8211; Apple are you sure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between PC and Mac in term of window resizing (where to drag in order to resize a window) is old and everybody got used to it by now.Basically PC windows have a drag-able border, when you place the cursor over the window border it changes to a resize-cursor and allow you to drag the window border resizing the window, this works the same in all directions, and in corners:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/todepoint\/716613984\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1407\/716613984_e9cb1b9e8c_o.jpg\" alt=\"xp_resize.jpg\" height=\"340\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMacs windows however have one single resize area in the bottom right corner, there is no cursor feedback, if you drag it the window will resize &#8211; towards down and\/or right only:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/todepoint\/716614272\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1301\/716614272_fc9362498e_o.jpg\" alt=\"osx_resize.jpg\" height=\"340\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSwitchers find it a little annoying but Mac OS X has other features that compensate this &#8211; the green button that toggles window size and of-course Expose.And now, suddenly after years of industrial silence, comes Adobe with the new CS3 UI for Mac, that allow you to resize the interface windows (aka &#8216;palettes&#8217;) from the border &#8211; XP style..<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/todepoint\/716005759\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1333\/716005759_d2160bacf4_o.jpg\" alt=\"cs3_resize2.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about time to change this behavior in the Mac Aqua, it is not convenient.At least add a feedback cursor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between PC and Mac in term of window resizing (where to drag in order to resize a window) is old and everybody got used to it by now.Basically PC windows have a drag-able border, when you place the cursor over the window border&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7,21,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}