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I used to be really frustrated by the inconsistent + button, but recently I realized something interesting: especially for text-heavy applications such as brows

I used to be really frustrated by the inconsistent + button, but recently I realized something interesting: especially for text-heavy applications such as browsers, you often don't want to maximize them to the full width of the screen. This is because the optimal reading width is actually relatively narrow compared to our widescreen monitors, and going past that makes documents frustrating to read. As a result, whenever I hit + and the application expands to the full width of the screen, I very often have to grab an edge and drag it back to the center a little bit. There's definitely some things Apple got right with the design. Additionally, I think the need for maximization and edge-snapping in Windows is something that OSX handles very elegantly with Spaces.

WorldWideWayne 13y ago
> you often don't want to maximize... No, I always want to maximize when I want to maximize. When I want to make text more readable, I have other options like zooming, snapping to an edge (in Windows or with an add-on to OS X) or using an application specific function such as "reading mode" or "print layout" (in Word). Apple got window management completely wrong in my opinion. I mean, here's an example of a situation where an open window is orphaned from keyboard access of any kind: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/128720/how-to-switch-to-windows-that-dont-belong-to-any-running-application http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/128720/how-to-switc...