Fireworks/Illustrator: Comparison of window corners with Cocoa standard on the left, then Fireworks and finally Illustrator.
Irritatingly Fireworks doesn’t include the Apple resize control… instead you have to aim for an invisible border that is about 5 pixels big, the resize cursor will show for a radius of about 10 pixels but only the first 5 will actually work clicking beyond that will just click through. This utterly moronic resize change is one of the reasons I started this blog, I’m confident I can resize a window faster using the clearly defined cocoa resize control rather than having an ambiguous 8 corner resizing. In fact I bet I can even move and resize my window faster and with less miss clicks than someone can using the left hand invisible resize border.
I mean seriously Adobe… you really think Apple has been sat there developing UIs for this many years and not even considered adding 8 corner resizing? Seem to think you know better than them about how their own OS should work.
As a wonderful bonus this custom resize behaviour also breaks the OS X background interaction feature, normally on OS X if you hold command and click/drag on titlebars/controls in the background you can interact with them without losing focus unless it’s an Adobe app where they rolled their own widgets and didn’t replicate this feature. They probably don’t even know about it because their attention to detail has been so shoddy lately I mean there is even a redraw error on the bottom of that Fireworks window for fuck sake.
Thanks Rainer
