ralphm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Melton) (10/11/90)
I've just gotten more thoroughly pissed than before. I am sick of seeing Microsoft Word's Open dialog located off to the side of the screen. How many times do the human interface guidelines repeat that dialogs should be centered on the screen, with twice as musch space below as above? I want to start a (no doubt previously done) session of flaming Microsoft, this particular time on their playing fast and loose with the human interface guidelines. I don't care right now about whether the guidelines are right; I'm nore interested in the ways Microsoft breaks them. I'll just post one now, and gripe about the off-center dialog boxes. After using a bunch of applications that put the open dialog box in the Apple- dictated place, it is really weird to have it off to the left. -- Ralph Melton ralphm@portia.stanford.edu
xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird) (10/21/90)
In article <1990Oct11.021824.8621@portia.Stanford.EDU> ralphm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Melton) writes: >Microsoft Word's Open dialog located off to the side of the screen. How many ^^^^^^ What Screen do you have? On any Mac that I have worked with the Microsoft applications did exactly what the guidelines state should happen. -- X-----------------------------------------------------------------------------X X David Baird xdab@midway.uchicago.edu X X University Computing Organizations d-baird@uchicago.edu X X University of Chicago (312) 702-7161 X
ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/22/90)
/* Written 9:18 pm Oct 10, 1990 by ralphm@portia.Stanford.EDU in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.misc */ /* ---------- "Microsoft vs. HIG" ---------- */ I've just gotten more thoroughly pissed than before. I am sick of seeing Microsoft Word's Open dialog located off to the side of the screen. How many [stuff delleted] You aren't by any chance running Front and Center, are you? That always acted weird with MS products.