{"id":2806,"date":"2010-10-21T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2010-10-24T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T16:15:43","slug":"the-slow-death-of-overlapping-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/the-slow-death-of-overlapping-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slow Death of Overlapping Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/releasecandidateone.com\/230:the_slow_death_of_overlapping_windows\">Chris Clark<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/releasecandidateone.com\/230:the_slow_death_of_overlapping_windows\"><p>&#8230;it&rsquo;s the next step in a progression that began with iTunes and has slowly spread to the Finder, iLife, and Xcode: the single window UI as standard. In Lion it&rsquo;s not just a single window, it can be a full-screen window so that the windows of other apps can&rsquo;t confuse you. The window itself ceases to exist, the desktop ceases to exist, and the UI becomes mono-tasked.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s weird because with today&rsquo;s larger screens multiple windows work better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2010-10-24): <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/lion\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/lion\/\"><p>While I agree that the window management system we currently have is broken, simply doing away with it altogether is not solving the problem. It&rsquo;s capitulating.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Clark:&#8230;it&rsquo;s the next step in a progression that began with iTunes and has slowly spread to the Finder, iLife, and Xcode: the single window UI as standard. In Lion it&rsquo;s not just a single window, it can be a full-screen window so that the windows of other apps can&rsquo;t confuse you. The window itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}