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| From | Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale |
| Date | 2016-01-19 22:10 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n7mc3a$oal$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <n7k3rh$90e$1@dont-email.me> <n7knju$b26$2@dont-email.me> <20160119110726.753@kylheku.com> <20160119110917.824@kylheku.com> |
On 19/01/16 19:10, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 2016-01-19, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote: >> On 2016-01-19, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote: >>> On 19/01/16 04:38, Ramine wrote: >>>> >>>> Visual Designers Don’t Scale >>> >>> Why do you think so? (URLs don't count.) >> >> It has been my experience that most dialog boxes of visual tools >> don't scale. If they are for Windows, written by Microsoft, that is. >> >> "Damn it, get wider, so I can see the full path! Argh ..." > > Wait, that's "resize", not "scale", pardon me. > > Scale means resize, and the fonts and perhaps other UI elements like > buggons and icons get bigger. That's seen even less often in visual > development tools, so there is a point. Of course, such problems can be fixed if the motivation is there. But in any case I'm not saying he doesn't have a point. I'm saying he hasn't justified his point with reasoning. (I don't consider drive-by URLs to count as reasoning.) -- Richard Heathfield Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
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Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 07:14 +0000
Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2016-01-19 19:08 +0000
Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2016-01-19 19:10 +0000
Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 22:10 +0000
Re: Visual Designers Don't Scale Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-20 02:23 -0800
Re: Visual Designers Don't Scale Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-01-20 16:15 +0000
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