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0 pointsWillPostForFood3mo ago0 comments

Better in that it was clear, but worse that you had to resize from the bottom right. Made expanding to the left, or up, very annoying. I'd take the current situation over this.

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Lammy3mo ago

True, but not a 1:1 comparison, because Classic Mac OS windows were much better at staying where you put them, even between sessions. John Siracusa wrote a lot about how this was missing from Mac OS X: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/

Wowfunhappy3mo ago

People also didn't regularly plug classic Macs into external monitors, changing the screen resolution temporarily.

For this and many other reasons, I just don't think the paradigm would work today. It's philosophically smart but limiting in too many other ways.

Lammy3mo ago

Yeah that is also true. I have had that experience with certain CD-ROMs (maybe like two or three ever but has happened) on my PowerBook 2400c. If the authoring machine had a higher display resolution than my machine, and the author had the writable disc image's window open to a place outside my screen resolution, and the window positions got saved to the DesktopDB/DesktopDF, and the DesktopDB/DesktopDF got written to the CD-ROM, then it would open in the position outside my screen resolution every time my own DesktopDB/DesktopDF got erased. One particular artist's CD-ROM is completely outside of it which annoys me every time.

Relevant TA: https://web.archive.org/web/20090625152558/http://support.ap...

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Lammy3mo ago

Wowfunhappy3mo ago

People also didn't regularly plug classic Macs into external monitors, changing the screen resolution temporarily.

For this and many other reasons, I just don't think the paradigm would work today. It's philosophically smart but limiting in too many other ways.

Lammy3mo ago

Relevant TA: https://web.archive.org/web/20090625152558/http://support.ap...

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