Jan 8, 2006Comments
Death to dialog!
Do we still need the “Open/Save Dialog Box” on modern graphical interfaces? This article proposes that this device is as outdated as “application-centric operating systems”. When documents are the focus of an environment (as they should), wormholes to a different dimension (That is: A window to a “different application” such as Vista’s Windows Explorer or Mac OS’s Finder) are as unnecessary as cheap Science Fiction Pulp… Entertaining? Yes. Realistic and necessary? No.
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