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From: munson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Pop Up Menus....
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Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 11:22:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 25 11:22:34 1987
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In article <393@hydra.riacs.edu> julian@hydra.UUCP (Julian E. Gomez) writes:
>In article <787@crash.CTS.COM> frankb@pnet01.CTS.COM (Frank Boosman) writes:
>> ...
>>           title bar.  Except in the zoom-window box and in the
>>           close box, clicking within the title bar should have no
>>           effect.
>>           -- Inside Macintosh, Volume IV, page 9
>> Lightspeed C is great, but this one went against the rules.
>
>
>Microsoft has been going against the rules for a while. If you double
>click the title bar in MSBASIC, the window expands; double click again
>and it returns to original size. I imagine there are other companies
>who skipped this paragraph of IM.
>
>
>	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
>	julian@riacs.edu *** {...decvax!}ames!riacs!julian

Since the rule appeared in volume four, it was not published until about
the time of the Mac+.  Microsoft came up with their solution long before
zoom boxes existed (Word 1.05 and Excel also use the double click).  I
think zooming a window was probably a nifty feature that Apple missed
when it designed the original interface.

Ethan Munson
munson@ernie.berkeley.edu