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Wanted to quickly "open in background tab" through each of them but couldn't it. Leave it to Microsoft research to not deliver web links that work right. "When

Wanted to quickly "open in background tab" through each of them but couldn't it. Leave it to Microsoft research to not deliver web links that work right. "When you're so advanced, you can't even do the basic things!"

gfodor 15y ago
Man tough crowd. Can Microsoft do anything right around these parts? Sheesh.
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- rdw 15y ago
  Come on, the site is horribly broken in multiple obvious ways. No one gets a break for that. I have to report that I tried to mess around with the AGL example and got a perpetual loading screen. The concept seems good; the execution, lacking. Maybe this is not supposed to be public?
- latch 15y ago
  I think it's constructive to tell them their site is broken (which I also agree that it is[1]). However, you are also right that your parent was unnecessarily condescending. [1] There are billions of links which are just plain <a href="X"></a>, so the fraction of the ones that do something weird (like this, or target="_blank") really break the browsing experience for people.
sauravc 15y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work in a incubation group that was under MSR. Although there's plenty to gripe about at Microsoft, MSR is not one of them. It's a shining example of an awesome research group. (It probably employs more computer science researchers than any other company and was a great place to bounce ideas off of your peers, who are some of the smartest people in the field.) But one thing you should know, researchers aren't great web developers. Just look at any top computer science professor's personal websites. Judging a project's worthiness by its website is exactly like judging a book by its cover. It's pointlessly idiotic. At least balance it out with a comment about the projects on the page.
- knieveltech 15y ago
  "Judging a project's worthiness by its website is exactly like judging a book by its cover. It's pointlessly idiotic." A valid point, but there's another side floating around here unmentioned. I've lost count of the times I've had CS types sneer at my chosen profession (web development) as "child's play" and "not real programming". And yet for a task that is apparently infantile it's instructive to see how frequently it's done poorly by so-called "real" programmers.
- andrewflnr 15y ago
  If they're not genius web developers, though, why not just take the simple approach of plain links in a list? Why make it complicated? The projects definitely look cool though. Looking at Koka now, in the original tab...
eta_carinae 15y ago
I'm a pretty big supporter of Microsoft overall but I came here to post just this. There are a bunch of projects on this page and I wanted to open all of them in background tabs. I can't. What's the justification for not using plain links for this page, seriously?
minikomi 15y ago
Not such a friendly mobile experience either ... http://s1-02.twitpicproxy.com/photos/full/559446174.jpg http://s1-02.twitpicproxy.com/photos/full/559446174.jpg

gfodor 15y ago

Man tough crowd. Can Microsoft do anything right around these parts? Sheesh.

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rdw 15y ago
Come on, the site is horribly broken in multiple obvious ways. No one gets a break for that. I have to report that I tried to mess around with the AGL example and got a perpetual loading screen. The concept seems good; the execution, lacking. Maybe this is not supposed to be public?
latch 15y ago
I think it's constructive to tell them their site is broken (which I also agree that it is[1]). However, you are also right that your parent was unnecessarily condescending. [1] There are billions of links which are just plain <a href="X"></a>, so the fraction of the ones that do something weird (like this, or target="_blank") really break the browsing experience for people.

sauravc 15y ago

Disclaimer: I used to work in a incubation group that was under MSR. Although there's plenty to gripe about at Microsoft, MSR is not one of them. It's a shining example of an awesome research group. (It probably employs more computer science researchers than any other company and was a great place to bounce ideas off of your peers, who are some of the smartest people in the field.) But one thing you should know, researchers aren't great web developers. Just look at any top computer science professor's personal websites. Judging a project's worthiness by its website is exactly like judging a book by its cover. It's pointlessly idiotic. At least balance it out with a comment about the projects on the page.

knieveltech 15y ago
"Judging a project's worthiness by its website is exactly like judging a book by its cover. It's pointlessly idiotic." A valid point, but there's another side floating around here unmentioned. I've lost count of the times I've had CS types sneer at my chosen profession (web development) as "child's play" and "not real programming". And yet for a task that is apparently infantile it's instructive to see how frequently it's done poorly by so-called "real" programmers.
andrewflnr 15y ago
If they're not genius web developers, though, why not just take the simple approach of plain links in a list? Why make it complicated? The projects definitely look cool though. Looking at Koka now, in the original tab...

eta_carinae 15y ago

I'm a pretty big supporter of Microsoft overall but I came here to post just this. There are a bunch of projects on this page and I wanted to open all of them in background tabs. I can't. What's the justification for not using plain links for this page, seriously?

minikomi 15y ago

Not such a friendly mobile experience either ... http://s1-02.twitpicproxy.com/photos/full/559446174.jpg http://s1-02.twitpicproxy.com/photos/full/559446174.jpg