Click-Through Problem

OS X software developers really need to get their shit together with regards to click-through. I don't think it need be something that always works ONE way. Sometimes you want click-thorugh, sometimes you don't. But it should be consistent across the board and you should be able toggle between behaviors via key command.

Mozilla has one of the weirdest click-through behaviors I have ever seen. You can have an e-mail message window open and yet your active foreground window is something else. Mozilla allows you to highlight text inside the message window but you cannot type or paste anything because it hasn't switched the foreground app to Mozilla! You're typing something inside some other app! Sensing this mistake, you click inside the Mozilla message window and start typing again. No go, it still hasn't switched. No, you must click the TITLE BAR of the message window before you make it active! It drives me batty!

Most of the time I would like to have instantly-switching click-though, meaning that any screen object you can SEE, that isn't obscured by another window can be manipulated. But sometimes you don't want to switch away from your current app via mouse click. For example, accidentally clicking outside a Photoshop palette.

It isn't easy to figure out what behavior makes the most sense, but I guess my main beef is that some apps work one way and others the opposite. It's one of those subtle things which messes you up without you thinking about it.