On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Jonathon Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2008-12-02, at 16:11, Rick wrote: > > (I don't understand why so many people like to maximize windows. The > message part of my Mail window is 400 pixels wide, and my compose > window is about the same. Most websites with hard-widths have them set > at 700-800 pixels, and fluid-width pages are terrible to read at much > greater. It's impossible to visually scan wide text. So why waste 55% > of my display on a web page's background? (I'm on 1440x900.)) Plenty of web sites "DO" take advantage of the extra real estate. Also, you might have a side bar or bottom bar in firefox which takes up more width. My question would be 'What good is the unused real-estate?' Not only does it look stupid having some background app showing off to the side, what good does it do not maximized? I don't think people use that extra app showing off to the side to click on it to get back to where they were (That's just a silly way to manage apps, since if you want to get back to the browser, you won't get back to it by following the same practice, so why try to get to the app 'behind' your browser by clicking off to the side. The point is the shrunk space is just wasted.). I could see if you wanted two windows open and you were doing work in one while looking at the other, but typically a 3/4 opened safari or web browser simply does nothing for you. You're just stuck with looking at 'junk' sticl off in the unused space. I can see you occasionally wanting that extra 45% space (I use it sometimes like I said when I need to view windows side by side), but that unused space shouldn't be the 'norm' to display- or at least have maximize default to really maximizing then everyone gets what they want. (Yes I know about the javascript resize for browsers and I use that bookmarklet.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
