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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by eviks on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @05:51AM (#36692311)
> same reason why humanity has come up with an idea of standards

and the same reasons are there why humanity has come up with the idea of breaking or ignoring bad standards

You can't resolve these type of issues in the abstract, some olden design paradigms are better than what we have now, but then there were plenty of awful decisions "standardized" as well

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by allarm on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:12PM (#36700980)
That’s not “breaking”, that’s “ignorant disregard without sufficient understanding of what the standard actually is”.
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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by eviks on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:40PM (#36719223)
Nope, "smart disregard for bad UI practices standardized by ignorant people of the past" is also there
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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by allarm on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:26AM (#36720960)
Nope, it is not. The only reason you can say things I quoted below is because you hate and disrespect your own users. You should not "innovate" just for the sake of innovation. Any change in the design and UX should be the least painful for the user. If you do it the other way around it's nothing but narcissism.

> I don't see why we need to conform to a centralized idiom.

> But I wouldn't impose the same principles to all applications just so it will be slightly more familiar to some people.

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by eviks on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:08AM (#36722691)
Another reason is that you respect the users and want to offer them a superior UI even though something bad is more familiar

> You should not "innovate" just for the sake of innovation

But you can innovate to fix "bad UI practices standardized by ignorant people of the past"

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by allarm on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:26AM (#36725365)
Also you can reiterate the same line over and over again without thinking. Also works for some.
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