Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Oct 2009 19:14 UTC
Way back, when we were recovering from our hangovers from the millennium parties, Apple introduced, for the first time, Mac OS X and the Aqua user interface. This was still a preview, so it wasn't quite as polished and finished, of course. It also contained a feature that never made it into the final releases: single-window mode. Or did it...?
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NeXTstep and Mac OS X have a concept of hiding running applications, which is different from minimizing. When you choose to hide an app, all of its windows disappear from screen, but are not minimized to the Dock. When you switch back to the app using cmd-tab or by re-launching it, all non-minimized windows become visible again, on top of other running applications. This works the same whether or not the app was previously hidden. What the single application mode does, is simply to automatically hide all other applications when you select one from the Dock. Hide Others is a standard feature available from the menu bar of any NeXTstep/OS X application.