Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
More on Office 12 UI decisions ...
"Yesterday, I wrote about our fight against interface squalor. The most dangerous features from this perspective are the ones that appear to need to be available "all the time." Each one of these occupies a space in the window that can never be given back to the document canvas or to other features. Needless to say, we've taken a very conservative approach to allocating space for "always available" features. One needs to be skeptical about what "always available" really means.
That said, we are aware that some features do need to be available efficiently nearly always. One class of functionality that we felt fell into this category was "view switching." In this category, I put three kinds of features:
- Actually changing the view of the document (from Page Layout to Outline for instance).
- Turning on and off user interface components, such as the Ruler or the Formula Bar.
- Changing the zoom level of the document." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"Yesterday, I wrote about our fight against interface squalor. The most dangerous features from this perspective are the ones that appear to need to be available "all the time." Each one of these occupies a space in the window that can never be given back to the document canvas or to other features. Needless to say, we've taken a very conservative approach to allocating space for "always available" features. One needs to be skeptical about what "always available" really means.
That said, we are aware that some features do need to be available efficiently nearly always. One class of functionality that we felt fell into this category was "view switching." In this category, I put three kinds of features:
- Actually changing the view of the document (from Page Layout to Outline for instance).
- Turning on and off user interface components, such as the Ruler or the Formula Bar.
- Changing the zoom level of the document." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
View, windowing, and zoom control.
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