Re: IE dehanced?

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davegb wrote:
On Feb 24, 6:25 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vern Linard wrote:
things change.. some for better some for worse

IE and Vista are horrid, made by people that should be hanged for
destroying all logic and usablitity in UI.
Case closed

IYHO
;-)

There are still people who prefer things from Windows 3.11 for
Workgroups.
Some still prefer OS 9 over OS X. Some even long for the DOS and
WordPerfect 5 days...

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
Sometimes, we long for things the way they were for emotional,
nostalgic reasons. I don't have such feelings about software.
Wordperfect was a vastly superior word processor to Word, for at least
2 reasons. First, it had simple, straightforward ways of setting tabs
and margins and indents, something I still long for. After many years
of playing with Word's mysterious margin/tab/indent tool, I still have
no idea how it works or what I'll get when I manipulate it, and I
still, most of the time, can't get it to do what I want. If I were the
only person with this experience, I'd take the blame. But I'm not.
Second, Wordperfect's "Reveal Codes" view, in which you could see
every formatting code in the document and correct them as needed.
Figuring out what exactly is causing one paragraph to behave one way
and another to behave another way is still often impossible in Word.
This is NOT a nostalgic thing at all. Simple usability features that
Word has never approached.
Longing for DOS - that's pure masochism!

The right tool for the right occasion. But some (granted, only a few)
things work better or simpler in DOS (such as renaming a bunch of files with
wildcards, deleting an index.dat file (which can't be done in windows), and
a few other goodies)


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