OSX must be mocking me.
Expanded Window shown above.
I am not making this up.
Two examples of the Mac OS Expand button going haywire
March 24, 2009 @ 11:10 am
As I mentioned earlier, the Mac OS Expand Window button (the green one) is completely stupid.
The image above shows the expanded window state for my browser. Yeah, I can see a lot more of what I was looking at before now. -_-
Below is a perfect example of the inconsistencies of the button within Mac OS. If you push the Expand Window button in iTunes, the window actually goes into compact mode which makes absolutely no sense for a button that’s called Expand. If you think it’s isolated to the music library window, then you’re mistaken, because this same result happens when you push the Expand button in the Equalizer window too!
The puzzling green expand window button in Mac OS
March 23, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
I’ve used Mac OS for years and the one thing that continually puzzles me about their UI is the green Expand Window button at the left top corner of almost every application window.
According to Apple, the green button is supposed to expand the window but it seems more like a Resize Window Yourself button. I can only count a number of times where the button has actually done what it’s supposed to do — EXPAND the window — and the rest of the instances that I’ve pushed the button, the window just becomes some incredibly useless size.
The other thing that irks me about it is that it doesn’t differentiate between expanded-state and pre-expanded-state. The button stays the same whether or not you’ve pushed it and this presents a problem to the user (this is especially aggravating when the button doesn’t even do its intended task of actually expanding the window).
Apple needs to fix this problem or at least give developers some guidelines on how the button should act across all application windows (not just Finder windows).
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