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0 pointsdleslie5y ago0 comments

I'll take Win95 in a heartbeat; consistent, accessible, responsive and clear. Vastly superior to the majority of web interfaces.

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kilburn5y ago· 2 in thread

Also totally inflexible, you better have the right-sized screen/resolution: too small and you can't see that "ok" button; too large and you'll have a ridiculously small and crammed winform to fill/see your information.

pjmlp5y ago

Most cross platform toolkits support layout managers, since Motif days.

Actually even WinForms supports them, even though too many are happily doing fixed canvas positioning without using them.

dleslieOP5y ago

Windows has shipped an accessibility magnifier since the 90s, before hidpi was a thing.

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