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Date Posted: 17:08:36 11/17/09 Tue
Author: DZR
Author Host/IP: 212.198.136.138
Subject: There is no "maximise" on Mac
In reply to: andypandy 's message, "A query re: iMac/Safari users" on 16:42:45 11/17/09 Tue

The red button closes the window. The yellow button minimises the window to the dock. The green button attempts to "zoom" the window to an optimal size given the window contents. The Mac has always been designed as a genuine windowing environment. I have always been rather baffled by the fact that Windows users tend to maximise the window they are working in to fill the whole screen. That seems to miss the whole point of having a document-centric windowing environment, where you can see many open documents at once.

As Kashy says, you can manually resize any window to whatever size you want, including filling almost the whole screen, by dragging the bottom right corner of the window. In Safari this can be a little easier to miss if you haven't selected View -> Show Status Bar.

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[> [> I understand what you're saying -- andypandy, 17:24:41 11/17/09 Tue [1] (82.30.75.79)

but it just seemed so weird after using windows/IE for so long, saying that, I love my mac!


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