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Thanks for this great comment! As a non Mac person who has occasionally used a Mac, it makes perfect sense. > The only thing I expect to act as an Explorer win

Thanks for this great comment! As a non Mac person who has occasionally used a Mac, it makes perfect sense. > The only thing I expect to act as an Explorer window is … an Explorer window. One thing I wanted to add from my perspective (software engineer, use Linux and Windows): if I observed that the “save” button had created a literal Explorer window, then I think I would expect it to function as a Explorer window. I’m not surprised by that because I can recognize that Microsoft has taken the approach of implementing everything they can using Explorer. This gets back to what was discussed in the article actually! Overall I think I prefer the approach Apple takes on this problem.

zapzupnz 6y ago
If the “save” button did indeed create a literal Explorer window, I expect it to come with all the trimmings — but it doesn’t. Plenty of what makes Explorer what it is aren’t part of the actual control that both Explorer and file picker dialogs use. To me, thinking of file picker dialogs as literal Explorer windows is as contrived as file picker dialogs not offering full CRUD abilities — except one approach is vastly friendlier and safer. I understand the technical decision, too, but there’s nothing that could prevent Windows from making file picker dialog behaviour non-destructive.