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The title of the link says "just like Windows". It's not an operating system API like Win32, and it's not a faithful clone of Windows's window management behavior, like your title implies.

I can't drag a window so it lies partly off-screen, instead the window stops moving when I keep moving the mouse, allowing the mouse to change position relative to the title bar.. I can't aero snap, nor "snap window to full height". Only minimized windows are visible at the bottom of the screen, not a taskbar of all open windows.

There's some additions not present on Windows, that threw me off. There's an full-screen button in the title bars, which confused me at first (but could be useful). And each minimized window has a maximize button, which isn't present on Windows and confused me. It seems that whether a minimized window gets restored or maximized depends on whether you press the button or not, rather than being remembered like Windows does.

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Windows was a GUI shell on top of DOS, which this seems to be loosely alluding to. No Aero, no taskbar/superbar, no other features you're talking about.

Or, you know, it’s little cool window panes for the web and not a clone of Windows’ window system...

Does this person owe you something?

Are you suggesting that only positive critique should be allowed? If I was the developer I'd love to hear that user's honest take on my creation rather than the "oh, cool!" type of input.

Surely you’re not going to make me spell out for you why comparing a little window widget in JavaScript with features of the Windows operating system, isn’t helpful just because there was a soft analogy in the title. Surely, you could’ve seen more than that dichotomy you presented me with before you made me write this. But here we are.

This sort of “critique” common on HN and it’s a toxic culture. Not all critique is good critique. We should be against crappy critique like this because it’s not helpful, it’s mean spirited, and it’s anti-maker.

At the time I commented to the post, it was marked as "Show HN: WinBox – just like Windows, but for the web", implying the submitter was the project's author making sweeping claims about the software. The title has since had "Show HN" removed (had it been like that, I would not have written my original comment that way), and the inaccurate tagline removed as well.

Arguably I tend to be not only perfectionist and detail-oriented (whether on important or unimportant details), but even pedantic, or quick to judge, at times. Nonetheless I do not appreciate being having my writing called "mean spirited" or a "toxic culture".

It's more the way it's said. From the guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. (...) Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

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