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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:14PM (#27088977)

I generally prefer the content-based zoom functionality. This is a case of people not used to the Mac conventions disliking that Macs don't work like Windows.

And, as I've pointed out, both behaviors are possible on macOS out of the box.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by thiht on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:29PM (#27089127)

> I generally prefer the content-based zoom functionality

Why? This makes absolutely no sense. It's the same thing as macOS' windows not closing when you close them. It's stupid. They should copy Windows on what makes sense.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:31PM (#27089152)

Because I use a 55" TV a lot, and it's useful to make Preview or whatever just big enough that I can see an entire page without being too big to fit in the "comfortable reading" part of the screen. (I also like the App/Window/Document model of macOS)

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by deergomoo on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:02PM (#27091592)

> This makes absolutely no sense

I don’t understand the fascination with maximising windows, especially web browsers. What the hell is the point of filling my screen with the window when, for the vast majority of websites, half or more of it is gonna be empty margin?

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by thiht on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:12AM (#27095058)

Centering. If it's not fullscreen, it's hard to center the windows properly, and I hate looking at a floating window.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by nitrogen on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:28PM (#27091754)

Kiosks/dashboards where the display is what matters, not the navigation.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by einherjae on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:25PM (#27089550)

Why does it make sense that an application must have windows to keep running?

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by lazide on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:51PM (#27091520)

Not doing that results in closing everything you can see easily in the GUI but it’s still burning RAM and being obnoxious where you can’t easily see it. If I wanted that to happen, I’d tell it to do that.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by anoncake on Saturday May 08, 2021 @04:05PM (#27090234)

It's more intuitive for non-technical users, in my experience.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by anoncake on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:40AM (#27095495)

Is there even a pattern behind what gets downvoted here?

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by wruza on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:57PM (#27089354)

Maximizing sites that take 1024 px out of 1920 or even 2560 px doesn’t really make any sense.

macOS' windows not closing when you close them

Windows’ apps closing when you close their windows is no less absurd. The same for forcing you to either save or discard documents on quit/reboot.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by amyjess on Saturday May 08, 2021 @04:12PM (#27090284)

I don't want to have any non-maximized windows on my screen. I despise overlapping windows, and I want every single application I run to be full-screen, just like on a phone.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by wruza on Saturday May 08, 2021 @08:19PM (#27092013)

If that’s your preference, just do it. My comment wasn’t not about you or me, it was about what you get if you choose macos, how it works, and the reasoning behind that. This “I want how I want” sounds like a christian complaint in a mosque.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by reaperducer on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:10PM (#27091222)

I want every single application I run to be full-screen, just like on a phone.

So run them in full-screen mode. No one is stopping you.

I hardly ever run into a program on macOS that doesn't support full-screen. View → Enter Full Screen, or Control+Option+F.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by tambourine_man on Saturday May 08, 2021 @11:13PM (#27092900)

Use another OS then, macOS is not for you.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by thiht on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:01PM (#27089379)

> Windows’ apps closing when you close their windows is no less absurd

???

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:14PM (#27089476)

With macOS’s setup, I can command-tab to any open app (e.g. preview), hit the up arrow and then use the arrow keys to quickly open a recent document. Without the app model macOS uses, this is a lot less convenient, and I miss it every time I use my KDE Plasma Desktop.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by anoncake on Saturday May 08, 2021 @04:15PM (#27090293)

If you use the cascading Application Menu widget, Win -- Arrow Down -- Arrow Right gets you to the recent files menu.

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Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using... by user-the-name on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:51PM (#27090126)

Why, if I want to close one document and open another, should it matter which order I do this in?

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