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Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by jimjimjim »

cm3 wrote: post #4
sz4kerto wrote: post #3

Oh no. It pops up a quick menu when I select text, like Medium. The problem is that I'm constantly selecting the lines I'm reading. :( Edit: Also, it's extremely narrow. On my 32" 4K display, 70% of the screen is empty. And the font is too think. And stuff keeps moving/jumping when I'm moving the mouse cursor. I want 1998 back.

If it were 100% wide on 4K, how would your eyes scan the text? It's useful for illustrations (graphics), but I haven't met a person yet who can read wide text as efficiently as one or more narrow columns.

I've given up completely on landscape for monitors. I've rotated my two monitors to portrait. It works for websites, but it's also ideal for programming (no more looking through a letter box at the code), reading documentation and pdf pages.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by fredley »

sz4kerto wrote: post #3

Oh no. It pops up a quick menu when I select text, like Medium. The problem is that I'm constantly selecting the lines I'm reading. :( Edit: Also, it's extremely narrow. On my 32" 4K display, 70% of the screen is empty. And the font is too think. And stuff keeps moving/jumping when I'm moving the mouse cursor. I want 1998 back.

As a substitute for 1998, a simple userscript blocking all text-selection events could do the trick. One of the great things about the web is that you can choose how to consume it - publishers are essentially powerless to prevent you building your own view on their data. Adblock, readability, etc. It can be easy to forget sometimes.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by cmrx64 »

foota wrote: post #19

Maybe I'm just losing my eyesight, but does anyone else find that font impossible to read?

I also find it hard on my eyes. Looks like it's "Segoe UI" embedded via web fonts.

If you compare their screenshot: https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/content/images/2016/05/D...

To one of mine: https://imgur.com/rFwTqUW

It's not even close.

Edit: Seems the "blog" portion is very different than the actual docs: https://imgur.com/YKvFxCh

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by mvdwoord »

I would prefer if MS opened up their documentation and made it available for offline usage. The current options for that are hopelessly inadequate with (arbitrary) limits on the amount of data you can export. Now we get this crapscript laden fancy thing with only content from the marketing division. Not impressed.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

#27

Post by simula67 »

pandler wrote: post #8
sz4kerto wrote: post #3

Oh no. It pops up a quick menu when I select text, like Medium. The problem is that I'm constantly selecting the lines I'm reading. :( Edit: Also, it's extremely narrow. On my 32" 4K display, 70% of the screen is empty. And the font is too think. And stuff keeps moving/jumping when I'm moving the mouse cursor. I want 1998 back.

> The problem is that I'm constantly selecting the lines I'm reading I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one! I compulsively select random blocks of text: select up, select down, repeat. I definitely get annoyed with the popup-menu-on-select feature of Medium, but I feel I can hardly blame Medium for my random, compulsive habit.

I sometimes select the current line that I am reading. This helps me to quickly figure out the start of the next line when I am finished reading the current one.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by vezycash »

krylon wrote: post #23
staticelf wrote: post #11

Nice, I've always found msdn to be a bit hard to navigate through.

Yes! When the easiest way to something on a web site is to ask Google (or some other search engine) for it, something is very wrong.

Their search capability simply sucks. Unlike google, it seems knowledge from Bing doesn't seep to other parts of the company. Windows store search also sucks. It can't handle misspellings the way Youtube and Chrome store can.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by wastedhours »

jimjimjim wrote: post #21
cm3 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it were 100% wide on 4K, how would your eyes scan the text? It's useful for illustrations (graphics), but I haven't met a person yet who can read wide text as efficiently as one or more narrow columns.

I've given up completely on landscape for monitors. I've rotated my two monitors to portrait. It works for websites, but it's also ideal for programming (no more looking through a letter box at the code), reading documentation and pdf pages.

I've gone for main in landscape and portrait one on the left - the only issue with portrait can be the height, I find myself having my browser starting half way down, with the top section reserved for things like a console window that aren't being looked at constantly (would be great to be able to fullscreen video on just that bit too).

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

#30

Post by sleepychu »

jimjimjim wrote: post #21
cm3 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it were 100% wide on 4K, how would your eyes scan the text? It's useful for illustrations (graphics), but I haven't met a person yet who can read wide text as efficiently as one or more narrow columns.

I've given up completely on landscape for monitors. I've rotated my two monitors to portrait. It works for websites, but it's also ideal for programming (no more looking through a letter box at the code), reading documentation and pdf pages.

I wish this worked for games, I'd totally be a portrait user.
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