Mac OS X: Command-clicking on windows also works for resize box
Monday, June 25th, 2007Another handy click-through behaviour.
Another handy click-through behaviour.
In Mac OS X, command-clicking on a background window’s title bar is a right-old mess.
A long-standing problem with the Sidebar and the Dock.
Click-through not implemented properly for text in table cells.
Last week I wrote about this serious problem in Word where clicking on a background document with a selection to bring it to the foreground causes Word to lose the selection. As I indicated in my post, this “click-through” behaviour doesn’t make sense in the context of editing multiple documents, and the fact that the […]
Say you have more two document windows open in Word, Document A and Document B. You are in Document A and select a paragraph of text, with the intention of copying it to Document B. Before you actually copy it, you first want to locate the exact destination in Document B. So, while the paragraph […]
John Gruber at Daring Fireball is, as usual, right on in his description of the weird behaviour of the Eject buttons in the sidebar in Finder windows. While his focus is on click-through, he does echo some of the things I said earlier about the inappropriate behaviour of the Eject buttons. It is sometimes really […]
In the same vein as the “click-through” inconsistencies discussed yesterday, Mac OS X’s Aqua interface still suffers from another case of major and annoying inconsistency when it comes to buttons and the visual feedback (or lack thereof) that the user gets when clicking on them. Here’s what happens right after you click on the pulsating […]