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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by jjoonathan on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:27PM (#21357218)
Hamburgers and Heiroglyphs, GUI of the future!

At least Dropbox hasn't gone full in on the Heiroglyph side of the fad, they still have text labels for buttons, so you can understand what they do by looking at them and reading them.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by discreteevent on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:06PM (#21358727)
The hieroglyphs are beyond me. It's literally making up your own alphabet not to mind language. Might be the ultimate sign of the over indulgence of developers/designers. Each gets their own perfect world which we must spend the time decrypting
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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by tomjen3 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @07:23AM (#21363059)
That is pretty easy - you don't need to support text in multiple languages, which is both difficult, a tad expensive, and slows down your velocity (I think the last on is the biggest issue).
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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by buboard on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:17PM (#21358837)
I wish at least they used the egyptian ones. I 'd love to learn their language
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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by DonHopkins on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:43AM (#21361769)
Then you'd love OS/Iris, which died a long time ago but was later resurrected!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_myth#Death_and_resurrec...

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by jjoonathan on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:53PM (#21359611)
Press (Stork) to save!
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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by nine_k on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:46PM (#21359975)
Maybe they try to save on i18n.
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