Öö Tiib
1/20/2016 10:24:00 AM
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 00:10:27 UTC+2, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 19/01/16 19:10, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > On 2016-01-19, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
> >> On 2016-01-19, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
> >>> On 19/01/16 04:38, Ramine wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Visual Designers Don't Scale
> >>>
> >>> Why do you think so? (URLs don't count.)
> >>
> >> It has been my experience that most dialog boxes of visual tools
> >> don't scale. If they are for Windows, written by Microsoft, that is.
> >>
> >> "Damn it, get wider, so I can see the full path! Argh ..."
> >
> > Wait, that's "resize", not "scale", pardon me.
> >
> > Scale means resize, and the fonts and perhaps other UI elements like
> > buggons and icons get bigger. That's seen even less often in visual
> > development tools, so there is a point.
>
>
> Of course, such problems can be fixed if the motivation is there. But in
> any case I'm not saying he doesn't have a point. I'm saying he hasn't
> justified his point with reasoning. (I don't consider drive-by URLs to
> count as reasoning.)
Usually he posts lot of threads that repair some typo in previous thread
when he starts to reason. Diagrams with lot of vertices and edges
are hard to understand and to work with indeed. It is not news for anyone
who has seen such thing ... so are you sure we need lot of threads about
it?