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When trying to read information off of a background window and also entering data/using the foreground window, I sometimes find myself leaning over to peek around the foreground window to catch a glimpse of the obscured part of the background window. For those computer users with a webcam and about 500mhz of processor cycles to spare could have a utility to track their head position and slide foreground windows over as though the user were looking at a stack of windows in 3D space. The window scale and lack of drop shadows sort-of kills the realistic effect, but it may still be intuitive enough.
silent_tone, Sep 18 2004
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This all seems quite familiar.
Window transparency will help take care of this. I don't know about Windows, but Apple's OS X, as well as newer varieties of UNIX's X Window System, supports it.