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That Horrible Resizing Window Thing

Boom!!!In my feverish state of mind at the moment (yes, I’m ill), I went online to read up on videogames. From time to time I enjoy these, lately Eternal Sonata on the Xbox 360, and at the moment it’s Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Wii.

Guitar Hero 3 looks cool, I’ve got Guitar Hero 2, and I’m going to pick up the new game when I get the chance.

Another game that sounds cool is Rock Band from Harmonix, a whole band instead of just a guitar? Cool!

www (dot) rockband (dot) com

Bam!

Flock (my current web browser of choice) expands from my left screen to the right one, in a crazy attempt to fit in the Rock Band web page. Looks great, really does, since it also maximizes in height, hiding part of it behind my OS X dock… Lovely.

To get it back to the place and window size that I like, I have to move the whole window, since I can’t very well pull in the right corner since it’s behind the dock, and then resize.

Don’t ever-ever-ever resize my browser window without asking for permission!

I can’t believe web designers and developers are still doing this.

Needless to say, I closed down the Rock Band site so they had no way of convincing me to pick it up ASAP.

Originally posted on November 27, 2007 @ 6:46 am

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