Yeah I have the browser window maximised at all time on my 15inch. It's weird not having it maximised, or at least close to maximised.
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Do you guys run your browser window maximized
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I should add that for internal apps (data), I maximize on my external 20" screen.
For Internet usage, it is maximized on my internal 15" (1440x900) display. I just tried MR on my 20"... Yeah, that's annoying.
Yeah, you better stop arguing, it's time to close.Like I said, I'm on Windows, so I don't have that zoom button thing on OS X. That said, I've never had the green zoom button on OS X make the window much wider. It always made it full height, but not width.
That's because it looks at the content - and (usually) makes it just wide enough to contain it. The alternate function of the "green" button is to toggle to your own custom setting. It'll remember that, too. So you toggle from a calculated size and one you choose.
I run windows too, but since I came from Mac (at least from a GUI POV - Window 1 was barely a twinkle in Bill's eye, then we got "serious" with v2.0), I try to use the document base system on the not-quite-document-or-app system
. I have to say, I don't/didn't know any engineers who didn't use the windows as documents (which is to say were only wide enough to use) - there's never enough real estate when developing, so there has to be many windows open and useable at a time. There were some apps with required full screen, such as schematic capture or FPGA design and simulation, that sort of stuff. Just like on the Mac - some apps lend themselves to a full screen mode. Ok - rambling now. way past 0400. Later MR folks...
this is how i have my browser on my 23" ACD. on my MBP's 15" screen it just resizes to fit the resolution vertically and i move the dock the left.
if i were to maximise it on my 23" screen there would be too much white space and on websites that stretch i would find it harder to read. plus i love non-maximised windows on my desktop now i find my productivity increases.
if i were to maximise it on my 23" screen there would be too much white space and on websites that stretch i would find it harder to read. plus i love non-maximised windows on my desktop now i find my productivity increases.
Maximized!
Firefox and iTunes are the two applications I run maximized, mainly to reduce the amount of scrolling need. Everything else tends to get a smaller window.
Firefox and iTunes are the two applications I run maximized, mainly to reduce the amount of scrolling need. Everything else tends to get a smaller window.
Errrrrr, how does that make sense? You have a browser in a separate space with no other windows, yet you don't maximise it, effectively wasting space? I understand people who multitask and don't maximise, because they want to look at multiple windows. But looking at only one yet making it smaller - that I don't get.
No sense in running pretty much anything in fullscreen on a 30" 2560x1600 monitor.
Most websites are designed to work on the lowest common resolution, I think these days it's 1024x768 or 1280x800. Thus website width is usually set to 800-1000 pixels so spanning that on the whole display is useless since you'll just have empty space on the sides. Vertically I like to keep the browser height 100% though.
Until we get proper CSS3 support in browsers (not likely to happen anytime soon, knowing how much behind IE is..) we won't have proper text columns for newspaper style reading so limiting the width of a webpage is a decent compromise. Shorter lines are generally easier to read.
Most websites are designed to work on the lowest common resolution, I think these days it's 1024x768 or 1280x800. Thus website width is usually set to 800-1000 pixels so spanning that on the whole display is useless since you'll just have empty space on the sides. Vertically I like to keep the browser height 100% though.
Until we get proper CSS3 support in browsers (not likely to happen anytime soon, knowing how much behind IE is..) we won't have proper text columns for newspaper style reading so limiting the width of a webpage is a decent compromise. Shorter lines are generally easier to read.
Maybe it is just because I have a 13" MacBook Pro, but I think most Websites look a lot better when I have Safari maximized. I don't usually get tons of white space.
I've never liked having a browser window maximized. Even on my 13" MacBook, I run the window full-height but spare about an inch of screen space to the right - I like being able to select an item from the desktop without moving or minimizing the window.
I typically run Photoshop Elements at full-screen, because I don't have a choice; and often I run Excel and Entourage at full-screen, but virtually nothing else.
I typically run Photoshop Elements at full-screen, because I don't have a choice; and often I run Excel and Entourage at full-screen, but virtually nothing else.
Same here (1440x900 display).
Most of my applications that can be maximized are maximized (iLife, iWork, Activity Monitor, Preview (images that fill the screen), Finder, etc.).
I have almost every window taking up the whole screen. Not just the web browser. With Expose and Spaces, both of which I use constantly, there's no such thing as wasted space. I LIKE the white areas on the sides of a designed-for-1024 website. Helps me focus. If I need the desktop or another app, I hit my Expose or show desktop buttons, switch spaces, or switch apps with LiteSwitch X.
(Although I have two 24" monitors side-by-side, so it's not like space is at a premium.)
(Although I have two 24" monitors side-by-side, so it's not like space is at a premium.)
I suppose it depends on which web pages you browse, but most every site I visit looks as good or better at 1000-ish pixels wide than they would at 1500-ish pixels.
At full width, they either spread out too long (my head looks like I'm watching a tennis match when I read) or I end up with big blank margins. I'd rather see my own desktop than shades of white and gray.
At full width, they either spread out too long (my head looks like I'm watching a tennis match when I read) or I end up with big blank margins. I'd rather see my own desktop than shades of white and gray.
how do you do this - the exactly 1026 and exactly central, or am i just being a really dopey mac user???
Nope, I keep a window toe same width as the content, 100% height. No need to cover the whole screen with blank space.
I keep all my apps all the way to the left, but 2 or three inches of the desktop are showing on the right. It looks weird to have firefox centered, or anything else for that matter. It would look really weird to have it all the way to the right also. My dock is at the bottom by the way. And the window is all the way from top to bottom but never left to right.
i maximise everything i use as i use it.... on the 23 or the 46. browser, or text docos, can fit lots on the screen
Why? Talk about wasting space. If you maximise all your windows you can only see one application at a time. When I have my windows setup properly I can be using 3 or 4 different applications and never have to move or resize windows to expose what is in the other programs.
That is my number hate on Windows, the fact that windows are pretty much always maximised and making sure they are not maximised wastes even more space because each window has it's own separate menu bar unlike Mac OS X which only has one menu bar which reflects the currently active application.
I maximize my browser when at college (just my 13" screen) but at home I have my browser on my 19" (1440x900) where it remains the same size as when it's on the 13".