On 11/16/06, Dan Lowe dan@tangledhelix.com wrote:
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.
Which is why I suggested that the horizontal window size zoom to the longest line, though now that I think about it more, that preference would interact with having soft wrap enabled. When writing code I turn off soft wrapping, so in that case the horizontal expansion would be ideal (sadly there are times when you inherit code that doesn't conform to a reasonable 78 character/line limit), but when writing prose in latex, markdown, etc., then I have soft wrap enabled, and would want only the vertical expansion on zoom.
That being said, I'm still more interested in 2.0 moving forward than I am with the nuanced behavior of gumdrops.
cheers, -don