In incoming messages there is a divider separating the message body from the
section for the headers. This divider can be resized to fit more or less of
the headers or to collapse the header section completely. I have, however,
found that it behaves oddly, for me at least.

My expectation of its behavior would be for it to move when dragged
(click-hold mouse button, drag, release mouse button) which actually works
just fine. I've found, though, that if you just click the divider the cursor
changes to indicate that you are resizing the header section, but the header
section doesn't follow the mouse. Instead, the section is resized when you
next click the mouse. A stray click has often caused me to collapse the
headers to nothing or sometimes to double their size.

This is all easy enough to work around, but I'm curious as to why it would
have this behavior. I'm having trouble coming up with another example where
this click and then click again to move something is implemented in any Mac
software. One might argue that menus perform this way, but menus actually
drop down and the selection highlighting follows the mouse between clicks.
Again, this is just my expectation, but I would expect the header section to
resize live after the click.

Anyone from the development team willing to say why it was implemented this
way? I really am curious. Anyone else find this a little odd or am I the
only one?

-Remo Del Bello

-- 
"Well, once again my friend, we find that science is a two-headed beast. One
head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern conveniences,...but the
other head of science is bad! Oh beware the other head of science, Arthur,
it bites!"
-- The Tick


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