Not really. If you had bothered to read the rant, you might have noticed
that I was ripping on M$FT, not the poster, so I don't feel too bad about it.
I was agreeing with someone, so what I was giving the poster was proper
credit, not criticism. How bad do you feel regarding your lack of reading
comprehension?
And this UI is still a total piece of kr*p. Every other forum on the planet
uses essentially the same format, but M$FT must have decided that the
standard layout was too familiar, efficient, and usable, so they redesigned
it into a monstrosity that is essentially unusable on a 1024*768 laptop
screen. Works on a 1280*1024 screen OK, but on the smaller screen key parts
of the form keep running off the right side of the display. Like the message
window. When the message is not visible it is not readily apparent that the
blue highlight bar got mouse-scrolled to a different message. There is not
enough room on the smaller display for a three-column format. That must be
why everyone else uses a two-column format with stacked frames in the
columns. Just like Outlook Express. This is aggravated by the posting form,
which even with the most current IE6 version has to be maximized when running
at 1024*768 to get the word wrap function to work, and that obscures
everything else on the screen.
UI's can be desiged well, or they can be designed badly. This one was
designed badly and your ad-hominem attack is not going to change that.
I don't blame all of the ills of this world on corporations - there was no
implied criticism of all corporations in my post, just one, M$FT. I think
the blame for all the ills of the world has to be shared equally between
corporations and stupid people.
