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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by abduhl on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:21PM (#3229898)
How is this an argument? If users expect a button to do a certain thing then that is what the button should do. Where the behavior was learned is irrelevant.
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by Tycho on Sunday November 13, 2011 @04:02PM (#3231821)
How is THAT an argument? Different users will obviously expect different things.

The green button in almost every case just resizes the window to the optimal size. Whereas the maximise button simply wastes most of your screen estate (which, bizarrely, many Windows users think is actually taking advantage of their large displays, whereas its really doing the opposite).

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by DanBC on Sunday November 13, 2011 @05:35PM (#3232024)
> The green button in almost every case just resizes the window to the optimal size.

For varying values of optimal including "not optimal in any way for any user in any situation"

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