On 8 Mar 2006 at 11:42, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Come to think of this, is it not weird IE/Win doesn't do this? It's > like Mac apps. You can't have child windows within parent one, like > you do in Finale and Office.
Windows offers the MDI (multiple document interface), what you'd described in the part I'm not quoting, with child windows inside a parent window, and the SDI (single document interface), where each window floats independently, with no parent window. The SDI was very uncommon in applications that could open multiple documents until web browsers became common. Microsoft seems to have stupidly thought this was a *good* UI, because they introduced the SDI into their Office apps with Office 2000. This necessitated a change to the Taskbar in WinXP to allow it to group the SDI windows by parent application. This is a clear situation of Microsoft paying the price for having made a wrong decision in the first place -- they then had to create a workaround to fix the problem they'd created. That the SDI is a bad idea (and always was) is demonstrated by the fact that all browsers *except* IE now offered tabbed browsing within a single browser window. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
