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> Its creation must have upset a lot of people. Indeed. About the only difference in essence between this and well written contemporary post mortems is that i
by peatfreak 8y ago
> Its creation must have upset a lot of people.
Indeed. About the only difference in essence between this and well written contemporary post mortems is that individuals are named. In other words, it's not a "blameless" post mortem; on the contrary, the knives come out and people are savaged by name.
- DannyBee 8y agoWhich actually takes away from it in several places, IMHO. If you read the savagery about the standard dialog stuff, 1. The author inserts pointless opinion about the likely success or failure of that project 2. The author may have been very wrong? I am not a Microsoft archeologist, but it looks like the goal of having significant sets of standard dialogs as a shared library was in fact, wildly successful? In a lot of ways, it was a bright spot in programs that fucked the UI up for everything else - the standard dialogs were so standard and good that when java and other things had their own file/etc dialogs, everyone noticed and complained.
- slededit 8y agoSDM dialogs live even today in the bowls of office Apps. Although it has since been supplanted by at least two “hot new things” since then. Last I heard there wast talk of moving to React. Never does a new technology fully replace the old.
- tome 8y agoSDM = standard dialog manager, presumably https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/WinAuto/appendix-b--standard-dialog-manager-support https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/WinAuto/app...