"usability"

On Planet Gnome, I found a post by Nat Friedman regarding user interfaces. One example that is given there is called 'Mezzo', which is has the following "feature":

Bumper boarders:
Windows cannot go beyond the edge of the screen. Period. The edge of the screen is a hard edge, a 'bumper', preventing users from moving content outside their view.

That is evil. Period.