Microsoft OS X app windows are dock-aware
May 03, '02 09:00:04PM • Contributed by: djpk
If your dock is hidden and an IE window is where the dock will show up, use either the menus or the show/hide dock shortcut (command option D) and the IE window will move up and resize itself so the dock has room. It will either move up until it is out of the way or it will move all the way up and resize until its bottom is at the top of the dock. It also works on the left and right sides of the screen.
[Editor's note: Although this isn't really an OS X hint, I thought it interesting as it is a behavior that we may see as more apps become "dock aware". Office v.X apps also exhibit this behavior, and they're a bit smarter about it - when you hide the dock again, they re-expand to their full size. Anyone notice similar behavior in other programs? And for the more more technical readers, are there hooks in the APIs that make this easy to implement?]
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