Re:Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design?
by gjm11 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:17PM
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Nope, not banning emojis. You got the parent post backward and made fun of the completely-wrong thing you thought it was saying. I'm pretty sure that's what got you the downvotes.
What they actually meant: Ribbons are bad UI, so if Microsoft hold a patent covering them and enforce it aggressively then (one variety of) bad UI will be unavailable or at least expensive.
(Incidentally, I did not downvote your comment; I am guessing at the reasons others likely had.)
Re:Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design?
by scientician on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:59AM
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^_^
If something is patented, it will become illegal to use.
Hopefully /all/ proprietary patterns become patented, and then perhaps only good patterns will be left :P
Re:Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design?
by jmkni on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:08PM
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Each to their own I guess. I find the Ribbon UI intuitive.
Re:Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design?
by reificator on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:48PM
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> implies Ribbon is "good UI"
Where was that implied?
> implies Ribbon is "good UI"
o_O
I'm not saying traditional menus are the end-all-be-all of GUIs, but from there to assuming the ribbon is "good" there is quite a jump. I personally find it very difficult to locate anything on Ribbon bars.
Edit: hey, HN banning emojis?