Membranophonist’s Ramblings

Robb Beal’s suggestions (or my twisted interpretation of them :-):

When scrubbing the Dock, only application windows with views that could accept the dragged object would be tiled, basically making Exposé context-sensitive.

For example, say you have several RTF and plain text documents open in TextEdit: when you hold an image over TextEdit’s Dock icon, only the RTF documents would be tiled because the plain text documents cannot accept images.

Once a window was selected and brought forward at normal size, view areas that could not accept the object would be dimmed, thereby indicating what sections of the window could accept the object.

An example using iTunes: if you drag an image to iTunes, the text areas would dim, clearly showing that the only valid destination for the dragged image would be the image well, which would be opened if it wasn’t already. Also, in this particular example, it would help if the name(s) of the songs in which the image would be embedded were not dimmed.