In my everyday use of the Mac at work, I have several windows open at once, all of them showing different views of the project I’m working on. In either mode, Shift-click on a window to get the opposite of the chosen behavior. In “Modern” mode, only the clicked window comes to the front. In “Classic” mode, clicking on a window brings all the windows in that app to the front, just like it did in classic Mac OS. I came to the (admittedly self-serving) conclusion that my snap judgment was right: what Front and Center does is at odds with my view of multitasking and would be a hindrance to my use of the Mac. And then I spent the next week using my Macs and thinking more about how I use them. I read the release articles by Lee Fyock and John Siracusa and the initial posts 1 by John Gruber, Jason Snell, Stephen Hackett, Ryan Christoffel, and others. When I heard about Front and Center, my first thought was “Why would anyone want their windows to behave that way?” But I didn’t write a post about it right away, because maybe my snap judgment was wrong.
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