Re: Obsolete and awkward software

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Posted by subs
2005-12-18 19:15:24

Stephen,
I just download V9 of IH and spent 10 minutes playing. Here is my initial reaction.

The entire UI looks like it is from 1990 something.

It uses splitter windows which are a pain.

No use of docking or floating windows, which are common place these days.
It uses Popup windows which get in the way and you have to keep on opening and closing.

No toolbar images on main menu items or context menus.

Toolbar images use old fashioned 16 bit colors.

Tools|Options|Fonts looks like it came from 1985. Haven’t they heard of Font pickers.

I can’t see even one use of modern UI techniques. And this is a .Net application which has access to all of the latest UI components. I find this more unbelievable than anything else. I assume they just did a quick hacked port of the earlier version to .Net.

Paste content from a Web Page that includes text and images and I get nothing very useful.

Drag an image from IE onto MDE doesn’t work. Feature list indicates it should.

Help is WinHelp which was replaced years ago by HTMLhelp.

I’m sure IH is a powerfull application and lots of people love it, but this is 2005 and looking at IH you would never know it.

If it is “state of the art” as you say, then I’m very worried about the state we are all in. AFAIC it isn’t even close.

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