Re: Word 2008 love of the left

Couldn't agree more - "A rose by any other name..." can be antithetically -
but equally - applied to a pile of [].
--
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Daiya Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:usieg4PiIHA.4536@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I used to argue with McGhie about some stuff being just bad design, and
therefore not bugs. Now I just say screw it, it's a bug. :)

CyberTaz wrote:
Except, Except Ms Daiya, Office 2008 was designed for Leopard & the
future,
not "retro-designed" for prior versions of the OS:-)

I'm not saying that it *should be* that way nor that I, too, wouldn't
prefer it otherwise - just offering my understanding of why that
"control"
is absent from 2008.

Not being a programmer I certainly can't say for sure, but I would think
it
might cause some sort of conflict or at least more complex coding to
include
both behaviors & have Word recognize what OS version it's running in &
maintain window positioning in one version & relinquish it in another. It
would also be incongruous for Word to behave one way in one version of
the
OS but differently in another -- just look at the discussion generated
here
due to the fact that different versions of Word operate in disparate
manners:-) I can understand that it my be an "either/or" situation as a
matter of necessity, but it just as well may be simply a design decision.

At any rate, my original intent was to reassure Patrick that he was doing
nothing wrong nor "missing" anything.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac


On 3/17/08 6:35 PM, in article #BLS98HiIHA.2268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Daiya
Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Except, CyberTaz--if that's the case, then Word ought to behave
differently in OS 10.4, which doesn't have Spaces and thus cannot turn
control over to it. But it's broken in Tiger on my machine too.

Expose doesn't affect window position in active apps, so I can't think
it's presence in Tiger should matter.

CyberTaz wrote:

Hi Patrick -

The only thing you're "missing" (as I understand it) is that 2004 was
designed prior to the actual introduction of the earlier stages of OS
X -
before established interface guidelines were published by Apple, some
of
which have since been changged. Therefore Office was designed pretty
much on
pre-OS X standards and an otherwise "free rein".

The behavior of Office 2008, however, is in compliance with the Apple
guidelines which have since evolved... The expectation being that
window
positioning is to be controlled by Exposé and Spaces - which,
unfortunately,
have not yet matured to their full extent & Word doesn't yet play
nicely
with those features.





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