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> A good windowing system is a system where you don't need to move or resize windows. That isn't necessarily true for everyone; the Lisa and Mac designers defi
by KerrAvon 3y ago
> A good windowing system is a system where you don't need to move or resize windows.
That isn't necessarily true for everyone; the Lisa and Mac designers definitely did not feel that way.
> why Apple's OS didn't have a maximize button
Why would it? Early multitasking required being able to interact with multiple windows. It was always weird to me that Windows would have these giant windows preventing you from interacting with stuff in other windows. You bought an OS capable of running more than one app at once and you don't want to take advantage of it?
- codedokode 3y ago> Early multitasking required being able to interact with multiple windows. If you have a laptop screen (especially low resolution screen from 2000s) you cannot have multiple windows visible at the same time and be useful. Imagine if you have a browser, a graphic editor, an IDE and spreadsheet. You simply cannot fit them onto 15" screen.
- codedokode 3y ago> the Lisa and Mac designers definitely did not feel that way. This is weird, because at that time the screen resolution was something like 600x400 and you could not fit lot of information (like a text document or a folder with icons) even in fullscreen mode, let alone windowed mode. The smaller the window, the more you will have to scroll and scrolling then was slow and blocky.