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"How come the Mac's "Maximize" button doesn't actually Maximize things?"
It's because Mac OS X doesn't have a Maximize button, it has a Zoom button.
OS X: Ok, so why is it that Mac OS X's Zoom button doesn't enlarge windows so that they fill the screen?
Apple's philosophy is that a maximized environment is inherintly inefficent since it makes dragging content from one window to another extremely cumbersome (read the section on Drag and Drop). Many types of documents are vertically oriented (like a printed page) yet monitors are wider than they are tall. So—for instance— it doesn't make sense for a word processing document to fill the width of the screen.
The Zoom button toggles its window between 2 states, the standard state and the user state. The standard state is determined by the manufacturer of the program being used. Apple's User Interface Guidelines provides this sensible direction to programmers for deciding the standard state of a window."
I just figured this out right now and knew where to come to get some help. I experienced this in a Mac Store when trying to maximize a window. How can you change it so it maximizes like on Windows XP? If i bought a mac, i would find this quite irritating.
Thanks alot
It's because Mac OS X doesn't have a Maximize button, it has a Zoom button.
OS X: Ok, so why is it that Mac OS X's Zoom button doesn't enlarge windows so that they fill the screen?
Apple's philosophy is that a maximized environment is inherintly inefficent since it makes dragging content from one window to another extremely cumbersome (read the section on Drag and Drop). Many types of documents are vertically oriented (like a printed page) yet monitors are wider than they are tall. So—for instance— it doesn't make sense for a word processing document to fill the width of the screen.
The Zoom button toggles its window between 2 states, the standard state and the user state. The standard state is determined by the manufacturer of the program being used. Apple's User Interface Guidelines provides this sensible direction to programmers for deciding the standard state of a window."
I just figured this out right now and knew where to come to get some help. I experienced this in a Mac Store when trying to maximize a window. How can you change it so it maximizes like on Windows XP? If i bought a mac, i would find this quite irritating.
Thanks alot