On Nov 16, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
TextMate's zoom button (the green jewel in the title bar) maximizes windows to the full screen. Great on my 12" PowerBook. Highly annoying on my 24" iMac. I'd rather it maximize vertically only. This behavior seems to vary across OS X applications (Safari only maximizes vertically e.g.). Any chance there is a hidden preference?
That's not how Safari works, actually. The standard behavior in most Mac apps is to maximize to "as big as needed to show the window contents". So Safari will expand horizontally to the width of the page (if there is one) and the height of the page (which on most pages is probably longer than your screen can show, so it goes as tall as it can). If you go to a page and make Safari nice and skinny and click the zoom control, it will probably increase its horizontal size (but not to the entire screen width) as well as its vertical size. YMMV depending where you visit to test this... but that's how it works on my site.
-dan