When I click on the Finder’s Green maximize button, I expect it to maximize. Maximize buttons have done this since X Windows and NextStep (that Windows’ interface was quite closely modeled on) and used to work in older versions of the Mac OS (6.0.8 through 9.x from memory). Apple munted (Australian slang for stuffed) this in OS X. The key thing about user interfaces is meeting user expectations. I expect a maximize button to maximize and a minimize button to minimize. The OS X finder’s Minimize button minimizes, but the maximize button doesn’t maximize. This is a proverbial pain in the posterior. Oh, and allowing users to use window edges to resize windows wouldn’t be that painful to implement would it??? You’ve got Unix – now use it!!!
PeterSW