The whole problem about it though, starts by ignoring its existance. When moving or resizing a window around the screen, there is no hint that if your window is too high/wide, the drawer will not have enough space to show up.

An easy way to overcome this, is to have the application window automatically resize in order to leave enough space for its drawer. This would look like a bad practice though.

Let’s take a look at the benefits:

The drawer contains elements that don’t need to be around all the time (if they do, then add them in the main window instead), and it has a “temporary” feeling which remind the user it can be turned off at any time.

The drawer is attached to the window. They move together and it’s visible as long as the window is visible (if we don’t need all that, we can use a palette window).

As I can’t think of a replacement for the drawer element, my suggestion is that it should stay, but used only when needed.
It could temporarily move the application window, or squeeze it in order to fit in, and when it’s gone the main window can get its previous size and position (unless it’s been moved or resized in the meantime).

The apostrophe (‘) means that SOMETHING IS MISSING.

I’m = I am.
He’s = He is.

And it’s = it is.

“to it’s parental window” = to (it is) parental window.

Its = “belonging to that thing”

It’s = “IT IS.”

I realize that this is not a comment on the content of the Blog. I don’t mean to make you wrong, just to correct a simple mistake in an otherwise well-written article.

Yours sincerely,

John Davis