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by silon5 4309 days ago
It's not a historic artefact. You can't trust the app to render in time... (that's also why client side decorations are worthless).
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Well, even if you assume the app will take too long to render, is it really worthwhile to render the "rest" of the window (pointer, frames, etc). The main reason you're working with a particular window is the content, not the chrome, so drawing the chrome asynchronously only serves to make things look weird, not actually get things done faster.
But wouldn't that also hold for OSX/Windows?