<story><title>Windows 11: a survey of text boxes</title><url>https://sjmulder.nl/2021/textboxes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Windows Terminal colour dialog&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;My response upon seeing that was &amp;quot;WTF! That looks ridiculously amateurish!&amp;quot; It almost feels like it&amp;#x27;s trolling me. Even the labels somehow manage to have a different size of font than the rest of the dialog, something a noob in the 90s using Visual Basic drag-and-drop to create dialogs would not produce without expending (considerable) additional effort.&lt;p&gt;Ironically, Win32 has had a much more full-featured and standard dialog for choosing colours since Windows 3.x:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;windows&amp;#x2F;win32&amp;#x2F;dlgbox&amp;#x2F;color-dialog-box&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;windows&amp;#x2F;win32&amp;#x2F;dlgbox&amp;#x2F;color-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 11: a survey of text boxes</title><url>https://sjmulder.nl/2021/textboxes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ed_elliott_asc</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why microsoft doesn&amp;#x27;t have a small team dedicated to look and feel and just bringing it all up to date - all those control panel applets, have they finally been upgraded?</text></comment>