Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

Re:Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to m... by mort96 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:43PM (#36375497)

I keep my browser fullscreen because websites usually break (read: horizontal scrollbars, or ridiculously narrow columns for content) or go into a mobile view if I don't.

I keep my terminal (read: text editor) fullscreen because then I have enough horizontal space to have two panes open next to each other (sometimes with an additional directory viewer to the left).

99% of the time, I'm in the terminal or the web browser. I don't understand what I would gain from not maximizing them, but I do understand what I would lose.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to m... by aeyes on Saturday June 17, 2023 @10:59PM (#36376921)

Can you name a website which does this? I use everything except games and my IDE in windowed on different machines and I have never experienced this problem in 10+ years of doing so. It can only happen if you make the browser window extremely narrow.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to m... by pxc on Sunday June 18, 2023 @08:22PM (#36385911)

If you're not using a tiling window manager, maximizing windows that do their own tiling (e.g., tmux, Emacs, vim, iTerm, Konsole... whatever) is the only thing that makes sense.

If you're visually impaired, you'll also likely find yourself needing to maximize because all of the blank space used in modern design trends means that if you scale up the app or the font sizes, all that empty space the app is burning up forces you to maximize the window just to fit the important elements on the screen.

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