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Introducing docs.microsoft.com
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Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com
#62anyone here around when msdn would send out 70+ cdroms only to replace them 3 or 6 months later?
Yeah! I loved getting those MSDN discs in the mail and seeing what was new.
I have to say I miss the old VS6 MSDN days. It was so much simpler then with just a bunch of help files.
It is crazy that today documentation is still such a weak point. I just want clean documentation that I can format how I want (user style sheets) with lots of solid example code.
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#63Livefyre sidenote feature breaks selection and copy/paste on iPhone - aside from being completely useless in first place.
Sending snippets of docs via email and other means is key - and is so much easier than signing into a third party service, using some lame social share feature, and then trying to find your contact there instead.
Aside from that, new layout looks nice!
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#64I am glad to see they acknowledge MSDN is bad. I fear they will make it worse but well, we'll see. Microsoft has been surprising these times.
Just try to get Google or Apple OSes documentation.
MSDN is the best documentation I ever seen from OS vendors.
Not to mention the mainframe, commercial UNIX and embedded real time OSes, even worse than those mentioned above.
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#65Some CSS tweaks that make it slightly more bearable (at least on my 1920px wide display)
/* disable social sharing buttons */
.lf-selection-popover,.lf-thread-btn{display:none;}
aside#social{display:none;}
/* make sidebar thinner and content wider */
@media only screen and (min-width: 1024px){#sidebar{max-width:20%;}}
@media only screen and (min-width: 1024px){div#main{max-width:80%;width:auto;margin:0;}}
body>div.container{max-width:none;}
/* make blog post wider */
article.post{max-width:none;}Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com
#66Livefyre sidenote feature breaks selection and copy/paste on iPhone - aside from being completely useless in first place. Sending snippets of docs via email and other means is key - and is so much easier than signing into a third party service, using some lame social share feature, and then trying to find your contact there instead. Aside from that, new layout looks nice!
Replying to self: tables are completely broken on mobile too - eg https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/multi-factor-authentication... and scroll to 'options' - it's about 5 CHARACTERS wide on iPhone 6 :)
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#67Oh 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 share this "pain".
I have the unshakable habit of triple-clicking a paragraph to highlight it to serve as a mark of where I was at when i need to interrupt reading.
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#68It would be a nice start if the farce of searching for some obscure error, finding an even more obscure forum entry linking to some MSDN page, navigating to this page just to see that it does no longer exists.
Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com
#69yes we live pastels and hipster fonts.
Re: Introducing docs.microsoft.com
#70Oh 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.
> On my 32" 4K display, 70% of the screen is empty.
Totally agreed on your other points (particularly about animations on selection) but as the article mentions, eye tracking repeatedly shows people have trouble reading very wide text. Also many people use large monitors to have multiple windows, rather than a single window maximised.