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Old 01-28-2022, 04:52 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
To this day I curse Microsoft for introducing the ribbon.
Then there are those of us who bless Microsoft for the Ribbon.

For me at least the old fixed menus were an incoherent shambles and the click-a-button bars were almost incomprehensible. I can now drive Word with ONE finger. And, in the first few months of using Office 2007 I discovered more about Excel and especially Word than I had learnt in decades of previous use.

Those who don't like the Office Ribbon have the option of installing add-ons like Classic Menu, or using something like Open Office and its derivatives - for free.

OTOH Vista's barely announced deprecation of Column Handlers in favour Property Handlers was a first-order tragedy. Most of the existing Column Handler dependent tools were never redeveloped for Property Handlers - and there's little evidence of their use in MS tools. Ranks with Mozilla's decision to kill-off a vast library of extensions with Quantum. Many of which have not, and cannot, be replaced in any mainstream browser I know.

Note: MS Property Handler APIs are orders of magnitude more complex (richer ?) than the old APIs, whilst the Mozilla WebExtension APIs are a much reduced (some say pathetic) subset of what they replaced.

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