[bscphil]

Exactly. Which to me is why the parent complaint is a bit silly. If vertical space is at such a premium on Mac laptops supposedly, why then does the default Apple UI [1] consume such an enormous amount of vertical space? This is many, many pixels more space than on Windows, where you only have the taskbar at the bottom. Apple's dock is much larger than the taskbar, in addition to having a global bar on the top!

So I conclude that Apple's designers are in fact not attempting to maximize vertical space, or at least that to the extent they do care about this, they're willing to make absurd compromises in apps like Safari while not fixing the glaring issue with the overall UI.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/MacOS_Montere...

[mixmastamyk]

MacBooks have 16:10 screens, not 16:9, so there is a bit more room. I still hide the dock however.