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Do you have any examples of violations of Fitts law in OS X that weren't present in OS9?

Those small traffic light buttons come to mind. The traffic light buttons are tiny and extremely difficult to acquire targets. The resize handle is another. It's not only small, often times it's right near the dock at the bottom and ao whenever you try to resize a window you end up moving over the dock. This is exacerbated by the magnification effect on the dock of it's turned on.

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