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lol you couldn't be more wrong. Back in the classic Mac days, Apple was so anti-full-screen-environment that most apps had floating toolbars and the document wi
by WWLink 3y ago
lol you couldn't be more wrong. Back in the classic Mac days, Apple was so anti-full-screen-environment that most apps had floating toolbars and the document windows were minimal and freestanding. (ircle and office:mac 2000 or older would be my first examples, but I believe photoshop worked the same).
MS did it because.. I think Windows used to only support 1 window per program or something. That's why old versions of Office basically go full screen and each document you open is another 'child window' of the main office window. Same was true for stuff like America Online lol.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoAnd then in 2010 they came out with macOS 10 and went back on all that.
- WWLink 3y agoMacOS X was still pretty hardcore about not doing fullscreen, for quite a while. The green button used to make the window 'full size' but that often meant like, as big as a 8x11 document in word would be, not full screen. That pissed off a lot of users who expected MacOS to act like Windows. So Apple changed it. Then along came the iPad and Apple went full hog on "1 task at a time" UIs. So full hog that Microsoft had to backstep and do the same with Windows 8 lol. I don't know what Apple is doing anymore lol.