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in article <48596@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus) says:
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>>least they'll all *look* inactive, but won't be, because clicking on
>>the (invisible) zoom box of the one which would have been frontmost
>>will bring the Finder to the front, but also cause the window to zoom.
> 
> That thar ain't no bug, it's a feature!  Basically, clicking on a background
> layer not only brings that layer to the front, but also acts just as if you
> had clicked at that location with the layer active.  I think this is handy.

Yes, it is handy to be able to do things without requiring that 
extra click, but that's not what I'm arguing with.  What I'm saying
is that applications shouldn't hide an active control from the user. 
The Finder does this with the aforementioned zoom box.  The Finder's 
problem is that it hides but fails to de-activate the zoom box 
when it's in the background.  I'd be quite satisfied with a zoom
box which was active, provided I could see whether it was.  

> F'rexample, if you've got your WP in the background and you see a misspelled
> word, just double-click on the word and retype.  Otherwise, you'd have to
[...]

Note that not all applications use this Multifinder feature. For 
instance, the above scenario isn't possible in Word 3.01.  

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> Rob Jellinghaus
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