On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote:
> In many apps the little green button in the upper left corner seems to expand
> the window to full screen size. Except Safari. In Safari on my iMac it just
> expands it vertically to the top and bottom, but doesn't expand it
> horizontally. (On my MacBook Pro, clicking the little green button in Safari
> doesn't do anything at all.) Firefox expands full screen. Terminal, Mail,
> Preview, QuickTime Player, Dictionary and TextEdit all expand full screen. So
> whats up with Safari?
>
> In theory what's the little green button supposed to do?
The green button is supposed to "right size" the window. That is figure
out how big the window should be based on the contents of the window. As you
can imagine this can be somewhat difficult to do, so some programs punt and
just make the window take up the whole screen. Safari is actually making an
attempt at doing the right thing.
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Karl Kuehn
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