Monday, January 10, 2000, 11:24:47 PM, Leif wrote:
> Who said anything about minimizing?
Then the title bars are still visible and you can use those. Not only
that, but not being confined to inside the main window means you have more
space to play with.
> Either way, I don't have twelve or so buttons on my taskbar that have no
> business being there in the first place.
Neither do I. Want to see a screen shot of 12 Netscapes open? :)
> The taskbar IMO is for easily moving between applications (especially when
> they are maximized), I don't need twelve IE buttons hogging up the space.
Hogging what space? They are for moving between applications that are
open. You have 12 applications open. 12 different pages. The taskbar and
MDI are both interfaces to those 12 applications. MID just happens to be more
restrictive and offers no advantages over non-MDI.
> Try this test.
> Open Opera, cascade twelve pages.
> Open five other applications and maximize them
> Now open twelve instances of IE and tile those.
> Which browser is easier to use?
Easier to use? Opera because it is smaller, faster, and... oh, you meant
based on interface alone? Simple, the non-MDI one. Why?
Open 12 pages in Opera. Have one be your work page that belongs on the
work desktop. Move it there and leave the other 11 on the "web pages"
desktop.
Can't be done.
Have Opera open with 5 other applications on the desktop at once. Bring
the one page to the foreground without bringing all of Opera into the
foreground. The one page is sized to fit in with the other applications,
Opera is sized full screen so you can have multiple browser windows open at
once and see them all.
Can't be done.
MDI's weakness is that it cannot play nice with the other kiddies. That
is even on my 1600x1200 desktop at home. I'm not wanted desktop space and I
still dislike the restrictions of not being able to bring to the foreground
*ONLY* what I want so I can see it along with my other work at the same time.
I mean, that *IS* why I have a 19" monitor at 1600x1200 in the first place.
> If my Opera cascaded windows get out of whack, SHIFT-F5 fixes them.
> Try that with twelve IEs and five other apps.
I never use cascades because, as you might have noticed with Opera, some
applications don't play nice in a cascade. Opera, for example, doesn't
recognize clicks for focus on certain areas of the window and in a large
cascade of, oh, let's say 12 windows to pick a random number, where you bounce
around you quickly find that some windows are inaccessible because you only
have the close button, the maximize button and another button showing. This
is inexcusable.
Nah, not worth it. You still haven't come up with one advantage to MDI
while I have just given you two disadvantages. I think the issue is clear.
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