>
> Unaffected by the MDI, X11 and Mac users can deal with multiple windows.
> MDI is bad. It destroys interapplication drag&drop and severely hinders
> attempts to use windows efficiently.
>
> (The irony of all this is that the system named "Windows" has a broken
> windowing paradigm that makes it unpractical to use the windowed UI
> efficiently.)
Sorry but I have to disagree. Multi-windowing including (but not limitted
to - note that I explicity did not say "MDI") MDI has its uses as I've
partly explained (from my perspective at least). I'd much rather have it as
an option (like the next MS Office) than not have it at all. Who on earth
would want to have 150 different browser "instances" (visually, if not in
terms of memory map) open at the same time, when they could have them all in
one app to be managed as a whole. Or is there some other way to do this on
X11/Mac that I don't know about (quite likely)?
Cheers,
Chris
