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"tens of thousands" is a crazy over estimation. The whole point of Microsoft Word is to align stylized text on a canvas. The Word Art feature does not appear to
by cheschire 2y ago
"tens of thousands" is a crazy over estimation. The whole point of Microsoft Word is to align stylized text on a canvas. The Word Art feature does not appear to use much, if any, functionality that does have some more mundane purpose elsewhere in the application.
On top of that, I think you may be forgetting how common shitty banners were in the early 90's when this feature first came out. There was a clear market for this feature at the time, and they've only made incremental changes to it since.
- constantcrying 2y agoI think it is very likely much more time. Fonts are hard and the mere existence of text which doesn't move in a straight line adds enormous complexity. Also don't forget that it's existence requires competitors to implement similar things. >On top of that, I think you may be forgetting how common shitty banners were in the early 90's when this feature first came out. There was a clear market for this feature at the time No, I am not forgetting that. I am saying that this exact thought process is why we have so much awful software.
- Bluestein 2y ago> forgetting how common shitty banners were in the early 90's when this feature first came out. Oh, indeed. MS WordArt is the bastard quirky daughter of MS Clippy and an animated GIF.-