Cool Use for Safari's See-Through Window

By C.K. Sample, III

The other day, Laurie asked why Safari 1.3 has a new option to make a window invisible via the debug menu. This may not be the reason why the developers included it, but it is cool. An anonymous  contributer to Mac OS X Hints writes, "Now, to see behind the browser, all that is required is to switch to a tab containing a blank, transparent window
(prepared in advance). Since the opacity is below some threshold, it is possible to click through the window, and by using Command-clicks, to access background windows and UI elements without changing the frontmost application. . . . I guess I could always buy Windowshade X, but for my workflow, I only need it for Safari. Besides,
this is built-in and free." Nice.
 

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