On 13. Nov 2004, at 8:47, Michael A. Alderete wrote:
It certainly makes sense for *some* applications to do this. iTunes. iCal. System Preferences. Probably a web browser (Safari and Firefox both do it).
The reason why it makes sense is to alert the user that the application has finished launching.
Anyway, FWIW, I find the current behavior irritating, and wish it would stop. Sometimes I just want to open something, not create something new. Having to close a blank document first is just annoying.
If you open the file directly, the blank document won't appear. If you open the file after the blank document has appeared, it will _replace_ the blank document, so no need to manually close it (this behavior is also required by AHIG).
Anyway, there's an option in beta 4 to choose the behavior.