Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
- From: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:50:07 -0400
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
MDI is a solution to a problem of Windows' own making, where window
== process. As we are not stuck with that false equality, we have no
need to make an MDI interface on the platform to solve the problem
that a single process has multiple windows.
I never realized that was the reason for MDI. I always thought it was
a deliberate UI design to group all the artifacts of an application
into one window, to lighten the cognitive load compared to an
environment with arbitrarily overlapping windows from any number of
applications. I assumed this is also why Windows users like to
maximize their windows full-screen.
This is why I suggested Command-Option-H. It's like giving the
frontmost application a full-screen MDI window.
--Andy
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