{"id":181127,"date":"2010-01-14T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-8251297172288526576"},"modified":"2010-01-14T22:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:08:32","slug":"window-resizing-os-x-vs-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/181127","title":{"rendered":"Window resizing &#8211; OS X vs. XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On XP I can get &#8220;stuck windows&#8221; when I move my laptop between displays. These are windows that I can&#8217;t resize, because they&#8217;re too large for me to reach the right lower corner. (I think there are other causes of stuck windows.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On OS X if I click the green &#8220;right size&#8221; button windows resize to fit the screen &#8212; without going full screen. So they don&#8217;t get stuck.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s a small feature, but the sum of these small things is part of what makes Apple products a pleasure to use.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alas, as is common these days, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2009\/10\/file-could-not-be-found-decline-of-os-x.html\">signs of regression<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2010\/01\/personal-computing-2020-more-and-less.html\">lowest common denominator<\/a>.  iTunes doesn&#8217;t work properly, and when Apple tried to make the &#8220;right size&#8221; button work correctly users rebelled and Apple reverted to the bad behavior (it creates a mini-player instead, you have to option-click to get it to work). Many apps uses to try to guess how to best use the display surface, but now they fill the screen &#8212; which is absurd on a 27&#8243; monitor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Does Windows 7 do anything clever here, or is stuck in the XP world?<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/><small><a href=\"feed:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/public\/atom\/user\/06457543619879090746\/state\/com.google\/broadcast\">My Google Reader Shared items (feed)<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-8251297172288526576?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On XP I can get &#8220;stuck windows&#8221; when I move my laptop between displays. These are windows that I can&#8217;t resize, because they&#8217;re too large for me to reach the right lower corner. (I think there are other causes of stuck windows.) On OS X if I click the green &#8220;right size&#8221; button windows resize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}