It is not possible to move the cursor off of the resize handle.
Sorry, gonna have to call bullsh*t on this one. I just did it on XP, 733 mhz PIII, 16MB graphics card. Yes, I realize that it's an older machine, but you can't just make a blanket statement like that.
Window's resizing, while faster than Mac OS, sucks...
Even on very fast computers (1.6Ghz Celeron, specifically), the Windows leave artifacts, or sometimes the content doesn't update, and you can see through the Windows to the desktop... pretty ugly... I don't think Mac OS's choppy resizing would affect switches too much... esp. considering that on a fast Mac (1Ghz+), it's not that bad.
Also, in Windows, if any application is using the transparency that's in Windows, watch any resizing or even Window dragging drop to its knees and crawl... it becomes ridiculously pathetic... much worse than OS X has ever been...
Also, my computer is a Powermac 7300 with NO graphics acceleration of any kind (just a 2MB video buffer), and OS X's window handling is remarkably fast considering all the extra stuff in there, like transparency... Window redrawing, to me, actually feels slower in OS 9 (because neither of them have gfx acceleration, and I suspect since Quartz is designed for the CPU, and not GPU, it is written better as such).
I bought a Mac for the same reason I bought a BMW. Attention to detail. In the words of a smaller car rental company "We Try Harder." When your not no #1 in an industry you strive to be better. This is Apple's strongest area, quality.
I want my windows to resize better than any OS on the planet.
Sure it may not seem important but "God is in the details." With a little Apple Innovation and some elbow grease it can only get better.
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Originally posted by lundy
Ever seen IE resize a window on a PC?
It is not possible to move the cursor off of the resize handle.
Sorry, gonna have to call bullsh*t on this one. I just did it on XP, 733 mhz PIII, 16MB graphics card. Yes, I realize that it's an older machine, but you can't just make a blanket statement like that.
Even on very fast computers (1.6Ghz Celeron, specifically), the Windows leave artifacts, or sometimes the content doesn't update, and you can see through the Windows to the desktop... pretty ugly... I don't think Mac OS's choppy resizing would affect switches too much... esp. considering that on a fast Mac (1Ghz+), it's not that bad.
Also, in Windows, if any application is using the transparency that's in Windows, watch any resizing or even Window dragging drop to its knees and crawl... it becomes ridiculously pathetic... much worse than OS X has ever been...
Also, my computer is a Powermac 7300 with NO graphics acceleration of any kind (just a 2MB video buffer), and OS X's window handling is remarkably fast considering all the extra stuff in there, like transparency... Window redrawing, to me, actually feels slower in OS 9 (because neither of them have gfx acceleration, and I suspect since Quartz is designed for the CPU, and not GPU, it is written better as such).
I bought a Mac for the same reason I bought a BMW. Attention to detail. In the words of a smaller car rental company "We Try Harder." When your not no #1 in an industry you strive to be better. This is Apple's strongest area, quality.
I want my windows to resize better than any OS on the planet.
Sure it may not seem important but "God is in the details." With a little Apple Innovation and some elbow grease it can only get better.