A stupid newbie question

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Tue Oct 9 16:07:11 UTC 2001


On Tuesday 09 October 2001 06:43 am, Torge Husfeldt wrote:
> Russell Allen wrote:
> > G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl wrote:
> > > Yes, one of the old metaphors was the multidocument interface (MDI
> > > 1986?)
> >
> > This metaphor still survives in the Opera web browser, and in Sun's Star
> > Office, both of which are MDI interfaces.

> Sun Office 6.0 beta just gave up the MDI

But they still have similar window-management behavior: child windows (like 
the Styles window) are captive in the outermost (now Document) window. They 
just lost the Desktop.

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Ned Konz
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