In Adobe apps, you often find all auxiliary windows appearing as floating
windows - palettes, properties, layers etc. 

In Microsoft apps, you often find the auxiliary windows docked to the sides
of the main window with movable splitters between them.

Which approach you like better and why? Do you think one can combine the
both approaches? I am curious how it is usually implemented in Mac apps (I
haven't got one yet)? 

I currently tend to think that the splitter approach works well when the two
split views are equally important, and the floating palettes work better for
not-so-important or temporarily used windows.
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