CS4′s Application Frame
When I left Windows for Mac there was just one thing that really frustrated me. There were a few things that I didn’t get like why the maximize, minimize, close dots were on the left hand side of the window instead of the right. It took me about a week to get use to the “menu bar that rules them all” but the thing that bothered me and that I wished I didn’t have to leave behind was how the interface of my web apps behaved. Anybody who has ever been on both computers knows that on a Mac you have panels that are “floating” in programs like Dreamweaver and Photoshop. With them floating this way you can see past and behind them to whatever is on the desktop. I found this extremely distracting as I was use to the program’s interface being all one piece. The longer I used Mac the less it bothered me and I did get use to it but I always longed for the way the Windows version handled it. Not enough to leave Mac of course but just secretly wished that panels didn’t float and allow me to look through them.
Adobe’s CS4 version of these softwares pulls it all together on the Mac very similar to the way I loved it on Windows and I really really love that. They call it an “application frame”. Thank you Adobe!
