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>(Not that I blame them, overlapping windows made a mess of everything.) Yet this move is happening exactly as extremely high resolution displays that can easi

• roc 16y ago
  And after multitasking research has shown how poorly most humans handle it. And after computer use research has shown how poorly most humans handle MDI. And after several products from several manufacturers have proven the change to focused-single-task to be not only palatable, but even preferable and popular. MDI is a great thing for a certain class of people. And I'm talking about a trend in software for everyone else. Those people weren't a high-res monitor away from becoming power-users. It was never going to happen.
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  • commandar 16y ago
    >And after several products from several manufacturers have proven the change to focused-single-task to be not only palatable, but even preferable and popular. And these devices have all had relatively small displays with totally different input methods, which is my entire point. It's the same mistake that was made in the early days of mobile devices in reverse. I don't believe that interface paradigms are one-size-fits-all. Totally modal interfaces ala iPhone/iPad make sense when you have to maximize display efficiency, but they don't make anywhere near as much sense when you have 20"+ displays with megapixel level resolutions to work with.