Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Top 9 Reasons the Apple Dock Sucks (13 Jan 2004) The Dock by default sucks up around 70 pixels square minimum, more than four times as much vertical space as either the Windows task bar or the Macintosh menu bar. (Yes, you can set it much smaller, but then you make it progressivley more difficult to identify an icon without "scrubbing" the screen with your mouse to reveal its label.) Couple that with Apple's move to 16:9 wide screens (read: short screens), and you have a real problem. For good measure, add in the Dock's habit of floating on top of working windows, and you have little choice but to hide it. Article URL: http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html Read 66 more articles from Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Designing for Limited Resources This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy