Posting Date: June 24, 2003

Apple Exposé -- "That’s exactly what Exposé does. Type the F9 key, and Exposé instantly tiles all of your open windows — scales them down and neatly arranges them, so you can see what’s in every single one." (Comments: Innovative? Breakthrough? Thanks Timo.)

Reader Comments...

First reaction:
Interesting!

Second reaction:
Fixes a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. That is, the GUI should be designed to avoid this type of problem...

What you guys think!?

Posted by: Yarone Goren on June 25, 2003 01:49 AM

Back in the early days of window systems, the battle raged between two competing windowing approaches: tiling vs. overlapping. Overlapping has clearly won that fight, at least in mainstream UIs. I find it very ironic though, that Expose brings back some form of tiling.

Posted by: Dan on June 25, 2003 03:56 AM

Overlapping won because it's more natural.

Posted by: Jason Fried on June 27, 2003 05:55 PM

I think it's cute that they came up with a name for it. I can't imagine actually calling it by name in daily conversation, but it's still cute though.

Posted by: Jack Baty on June 28, 2003 08:33 AM

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