Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
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From: Tom Shelton on 8 May 2010 10:49 On 2010-05-08, Armin Zingler <az.nospam(a)freenet.de> wrote: > Am 07.05.2010 18:51, schrieb Chris Dunaway: >>> Only one 30" monitor fits on my desktop. >>> >> >> Sounds like a good excuse to get a bigger desk and another 30" >> monitor!!! :) > > Sure, just for VS! ;-) > > > You don't share my MDI opinion? All you can do with the tabbed > interface can be done with MDI, but not the other way round. Even > if you don't make use of the MDI advantages, I don't understand > why they are taken away from me. > Because VS2010 is written using WPF - WPF does not support mdi, therefore, no MDI in vs2010. -- Tom Shelton
From: Armin Zingler on 8 May 2010 11:13 Am 08.05.2010 16:49, schrieb Tom Shelton: > Because VS2010 is written using WPF - WPF does not support mdi, therefore, no > MDI in vs2010. This means that WPF is not an option for my applications, too. ;-) -- Armin
From: Robert Roland on 8 May 2010 13:11 On Tue, 04 May 2010 20:11:32 -0700, Tom Shelton <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> wrote: >While the web interface isn't completely horrid - it's still not nntp. It >will be sorely missed. The biggest problem with web forums is the decentralization. With Usenet, there was always one single database for everything. With web servers, you have to connect to a myriad of different servers to keep up with your various subjects of interest. How hard would it be to implement an NNTP interface in the web forum server software? I can't imagine it would take a lot of effort. -- RoRo
From: Tom Shelton on 8 May 2010 13:30 On 2010-05-08, Robert Roland <fake(a)ddress.no> wrote: > On Tue, 04 May 2010 20:11:32 -0700, Tom Shelton ><tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> wrote: > >>While the web interface isn't completely horrid - it's still not nntp. It >>will be sorely missed. > > The biggest problem with web forums is the decentralization. With > Usenet, there was always one single database for everything. With web > servers, you have to connect to a myriad of different servers to keep > up with your various subjects of interest. > It's actually just the opposite. USENET is very decentralized - way more so then any web forum. Posts are submitted to a server and then propogated to other nttp servers. > How hard would it be to implement an NNTP interface in the web forum > server software? I can't imagine it would take a lot of effort. MS has an nntp bridge for their webforums. But, from all reports it's very slow - and if your like me and use a text only news reader (slrn+vim), then the html nature of the posts will make it unusable - unless you use a news reader that supports html. -- Tom Shelton
From: Tom Shelton on 8 May 2010 13:31
On 2010-05-08, Armin Zingler <az.nospam(a)freenet.de> wrote: > Am 08.05.2010 16:49, schrieb Tom Shelton: >> Because VS2010 is written using WPF - WPF does not support mdi, therefore, no >> MDI in vs2010. > > This means that WPF is not an option for my applications, too. ;-) Well, if you feel the need to use MDI then I guess not. But, in case you haven't noticed - mdi has long fallen out of fashion. It's very rare to see new software with an MDI interface. -- Tom Shelton |