Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Luis Villa wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 19:19, Dick Porter wrote:
>  
>
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:12:32PM -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > A window that is larger than your screen is useless anyways, and is a
> > > certain indicator of a buggy application --- why would an application
> > > create a window larger than your screen, rather than size itself
> > > correctly and let you scroll?
> > >      
> > Not true!
> >
> > Having the ability to see windows that are larger than the physical
> > screen is very handy for viewing large diagrams at least (when scaling it
> > down to fit one screenful makes the detail too small to see, and scrolling
> > is more awkward then choosing quadrants).
> >    
>
> Then the app is broken and needs an interface like ggv has for handling
> that case.
>  

I read this as saying, "Application authors should write complex logic 
to deal with every possible situation so that we, as platform designers, 
do not have to do so.  If it does not do this then it is 'broken and 
smoking crackrock'."

Is this incorrect?

-b

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