<story><title>Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy</title><url>https://oldbytes.space/@48kRAM/110695813509755748</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>The article also fails to mention the toolbar gore that was easily possible with Word: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;sometimes-a-word-is-worth-a-thousand-icons&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;sometimes-a-word-is-worth-a-th...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That gore is the primary reason why Microsoft designed ribbons.</text></item><item><author>llm_nerd</author><text>Seems trite. No one is running their display at 800x600 so apps aren&amp;#x27;t building for it.&lt;p&gt;And why not compare against actual 2023 Word? The Ribbon collapses down to simplified elements that trigger popups when space constrained. The writing surface dominates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>housemusicfan</author><text>&amp;gt; That gore is the primary reason why Microsoft designed ribbons.&lt;p&gt;The ribbon is, and continues to be, garbage. Most days I have to resort to the &amp;quot;Search&amp;quot; function in Office to locate a feature for which I clearly remember the exact menu location from 25 years ago, yet I&amp;#x27;ll be god damned if I could find it in the ribbon after over 10 minutes of searching.</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy</title><url>https://oldbytes.space/@48kRAM/110695813509755748</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>The article also fails to mention the toolbar gore that was easily possible with Word: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;sometimes-a-word-is-worth-a-thousand-icons&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;sometimes-a-word-is-worth-a-th...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That gore is the primary reason why Microsoft designed ribbons.</text></item><item><author>llm_nerd</author><text>Seems trite. No one is running their display at 800x600 so apps aren&amp;#x27;t building for it.&lt;p&gt;And why not compare against actual 2023 Word? The Ribbon collapses down to simplified elements that trigger popups when space constrained. The writing surface dominates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dingaling</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t see how the Ribbon is any better than hunt-and-peck menus.  If you can&amp;#x27;t see what you want on the current Ribbon view you have to click along the various arbitrary Ribbontabs until you find it.  But wait, some of them have subsidiary Ribbontabtabs!</text></comment>