Where Does The Term “Collapsed” Come Form? Why Isn’t It Named Miniaturized?
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Henry Wang The answer comes from a Mac OS 9 Finder feature that was discontinued when Mac OS X was introduced: collapsing windows. Finder windows in Mac OS 9 could be scripted to hide their content view and be reduced to a title bar. This process was referred to as collapsing a window. To maintain as much consistency as possable in the Finder’s scripting dictionary during the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, the term was kept but revised to apply to the process of miniaturizing windows to the Dock.