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Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by userbinator »

insertnickname wrote: post #9
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.

Use NoScript or equivalent to block scripts from the domain fyre.co. This prevents that annoying menu from popping up.

> Livefyre: The Leading Content Marketing and Engagement Platform

Looks like something to block regardless of whether it creates annoying menus. Is anyone else a little surprised (and perhaps repulsed) by Microsoft putting semi-shady 3rd-party scripts like this on their site? This seems completely opposite of what the Microsoft I knew would do.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by krrrh »

PakG1 wrote: post #40
pandler wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 used to do this. Switching to using a MacBook full-time fixed that habit for me. Even when I connect to a big monitor, I use a trackpad, not a mouse. Harder to compulsively highlight with that thing.

Enable 3-finger drag on the trackpad and relive the old days.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by Szel »

foota wrote: post #19

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

It's hard to read for me too. I think it's because too little contrast for such thin font. Main page is bad too, especially this blue boxes.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by dexterdog »

krrrh wrote: post #52
PakG1 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to do this. Switching to using a MacBook full-time fixed that habit for me. Even when I connect to a big monitor, I use a trackpad, not a mouse. Harder to compulsively highlight with that thing.

Enable 3-finger drag on the trackpad and relive the old days.

Don't forget the 11-finger tap.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by pionar »

koyote wrote: post #31

I think the main issue with documentation for Microsoft products/APIs is that the content is spread out on a large number of different Microsoft domains which makes it inherently difficult to find something. I have also often found (after using google to find the relevant article) that the content is either out of date or not relevant anymore. Adding yet another site to the list of sites which might or might not have…

Depending on what you're looking for, there's usually only two you need: MSDN[0] and TechNet[1].

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/library [1] https://technet.microsoft.com/library/default.aspx

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by 1wd »

koyote wrote: post #31

I think the main issue with documentation for Microsoft products/APIs is that the content is spread out on a large number of different Microsoft domains which makes it inherently difficult to find something. I have also often found (after using google to find the relevant article) that the content is either out of date or not relevant anymore. Adding yet another site to the list of sites which might or might not have…

Agree. Actually I'd already be happy if they stopped moving stuff around for no reason. I get "This object has moved" or worse "This object no longer exists" or just a redirect to some generic "Download Windows 10" page all the time on Microsoft documentation sites. :(

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by sleepychu »

daemin wrote: post #38
sleepychu wrote: post #30

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

Just run the games in windowed mode and you can generally change the size to however big you want.

sure but the UI is generally written to be a horizontal layout.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by partisan »

neppo wrote: post #49
taspeotis wrote: post #18

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> And stuff keeps moving/jumping when I'm moving the mouse cursor. Yes it's quite bad on that blog post, but if you check out an article [1] it doesn't suffer from that problem. Still has the selection-reader [2] problem, though. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/remoteapp/remoteapp-whatis [2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150528-00/?p=...

the text in [1] is not justified, that seems to make the comment icon behave differently. It goes to the right of the paragraph in that case instead of the last sentence of the paragraph.

Hover over an image and watch it change the layout.

Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com

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Post by PakG1 »

krrrh wrote: post #52
PakG1 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to do this. Switching to using a MacBook full-time fixed that habit for me. Even when I connect to a big monitor, I use a trackpad, not a mouse. Harder to compulsively highlight with that thing.

Enable 3-finger drag on the trackpad and relive the old days.

Damn you. :p
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