[AccessD] ...table driven command/menu bar interface needed

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon May 10 07:35:00 CDT 2010


 >>>...I'm wondering when the idiots behind the ribbon fiasco in Office will finally get the fact 
that a LOT of people DON"T have 2400x1600 screens, including millions of notebook users ...will it 
be before or after a critical mass decide to move beyond Office?

ROTFL!

William... what you don't like the fact that all of your applications suddenly have vertical sliders 
because the ribbon is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more important than your actual APPLICATION?  I mean... the 
ribbon IS the application right?  All that fun stuff that the user of the application has no 
business ever doing IS THE APPLICATION RIGHT?

Get with the program man!  REDESIGN all of your applications to give Microsoft their silly ribbon! 
And then inform your users (politely) that if you ever catch them using any of that stuff they 
aren't supposed to even have access to that you will cut off the hand at the wrist, with a white hot 
sword (cauterizes the wound and stops the bleeding).

Who are we to tell the 800 pound gorilla that they can't mutilate millions of existing applications? 
  Far far better to mutilate our users IMHO.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com



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