Cannot resize windows from all sides? Just the 1 corner??

Question

Hi all,
I've just switched back to Mac in the past year after 6 years with Windows. While in no way do I prefer windows overall, I cannot understand why Mac has not made all four sides of a given window 'grabbable' for resizing.
This is a massively inconvenient situation when you consider how often many of us need to resize/compare windows, particularly when switching to new computers, uploading files, etc.
Am I missing the solution? Is there a script available?
All I find on here are pointers to windowdragon and it requires APE which I prefer to avoid. Is there REALLY no OEM solution to this???
Thanks in advance for any enlightenment on this...

Answer 1

Adding that feature wouldn't pose a problem for you, though, as you wouldn't have to use it (though I bet you would in time). For people switching to mac after years on the PC, this is in fact a much-lamented issue.
Since it wouldn't hurt 'the people who don't care' to add the functionality, but the vast majority of Windows converts would be happier, it only makes sense, from a marketing standpoint, to add the feature.
People who aren't in the habit of using the feature (like yourself) quite naturally don't care much, but if you ARE in the habit of using it, it's quite annoying to have to draw the mouse all the way across the screen to find some dumb little spot (how I feel about it) when you know full well there is a more efficient way to handle the issue, and you're quite accustomed to it.
Consider this: I CAN use windows XP like a mac, in that I CAN go down to the bottom right corner to resize the window. If that were actually the superior method to resize the window, in every circumstance, I would naturally already be working with it that way. And of course I wouldn't notice there's a difference.
But it's not a superior manner of handling the 'resize' issue when your mouse is way ovver somewhere else on the screen. While this might sound like much ado about nothing, when you consider how nice it is to remove or simplify repetitive tasks, it's really a major annoyance.
But me, I'm an early adopter of the latest solutions for simplicity in the interface. I also have the new Logitech NuLOOQ ToolDial device, which has some real promise too.
Allowing users to resize the windows from any border on the window is a good idea, and not a bad idea, no matter how you look at it. It would cause no problem for anyone, yet help/satisfy many people, particularly those coming from the ONLY major opportunity Apple has to gain market share - windows users.
To be clear, this isn't a pro-windows rant, I'm just completely peeved with this one majorly annoying 'missing link' in an OS I otherwise like quite a lot. Implementing this feature wouldn't seem to be a major software engineering feat for the likes of Apple, so what's the holdup?