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"An expert in technical design, she also led the introduction of the novel, much copied “ribbon” interface for Microsoft Office..." I'm not claiming it isn't t
by Zirro 14y ago
"An expert in technical design, she also led the introduction of the novel, much copied “ribbon” interface for Microsoft Office..."
I'm not claiming it isn't true, but I can't say that I've seen it used outside of Microsoft-products either. Does anyone have any examples supporting the "much copied" statement?
- dagw 14y agoAutocad and friends use it.
- barredo 14y agoSee: http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/ACAD2009_RibbonDemo1.gif http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/ACAD2009_RibbonDemo1.gif & http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/ACAD2009_Menu_Browser.gif http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/ACAD2009_Menu_Browser.gif
- debacle 14y agoDoes that actually work? It seems like it'd be very hard to find what you're looking for.
- deltasquared 14y agoI still miss autolisp
- xradionut 14y agoTotally loved what you could do at the prompt in older AutoCad...
- deltasquared 14y agoR12 was a thing of beauty.
- dagw 14y agoWhat's changed? I'm not a big Autocad user, but the prompt's still there and everybody I know uses it all the time, and I've automated stuff using Lisp at least in AutoCad 2011
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- shaydoc 14y agoI think the ribbon was an absolute disaster, i found it completely annoying and unintuitive, just my opinion though! In other words, I hated it!
- halviti 14y agoMy problem with the ribbon is that many options have just disappeared. With menus, at least you could dig through the menus to find what you're looking for. With the ribbon, you're forced to rely on google to figure out how to use your application. Ever try and figure out how to display the headers of an e-mail in Outlook?
- jpdoctor 14y ago> Ever try and figure out how to display the headers of an e-mail in Outlook? ld;o 1. You just open the email, 2. look for the area on the ribbon that says "Tags", which is under the message tab, 3, don't click on any of those large icons and look for the itsy-bitsy little box with an arrow at the bottom-right of the "Tags" area, click on that. 4. Up pops a window, look for the subbox at the bottom that says "Internet Headers:" 5. The headers are always larger than that box, but you can click on the box and select-all (ctrl-A, very convenient) 6. Copy and paste into another text tool, which can be a faux-new-email which you bring up by hitting ctrl-N. [I just had to go through the exercise this morning, and it was such a brain-damaged thing that I couldn't resist documenting it.]
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoI think the ribbon is a good idea, and it's been used to good effect in some smaller applications like Paint and Windows Explorer. It deals with different window sizes much better than plain toolbars do, and it's a better way of laying out buttons. That said, in Microsoft Office it was a horrible idea.
- lifebar 14y agoRybka Aquarium (IDE ? User interface? However you call it) comes to mind (Chess).
- walnut-tree 14y agoI like the concept of the "ribbon" but dislike the way it's organised and laid out in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. The "ribbon" interface may have been a novel idea for Microsoft, but it did have precedents in ealier software (although the implementation was obviously different). Here, for example, is a screenshot of Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Adobe discontinued this software in 2002: http://goo.gl/q1LFn http://goo.gl/q1LFn And here's a Lotus Word Pro screenshot with it's tabbed, floating "properties" palette: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Word_Pro.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Word_Pro.png In many ways, the Microsoft Office "ribbon" takes a similar approach, but anchors the ribbon to the top of the screen rather than in a floating palette. The examples above aren't identical to the Microsoft "ribbon" design, but they contain seeds of the same idea.