Comments on: Developers: will you or have you signed for ribbon rights? http://www.itwriting.com/blog/885-developers-will-you-or-have-you-signed-for-ribbon-rights.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan O'Connor http://www.itwriting.com/blog/885-developers-will-you-or-have-you-signed-for-ribbon-rights.html/comment-page-1#comment-108033 Jonathan O'Connor Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:02:43 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/885-developers-will-you-or-have-you-signed-for-ribbon-rights.html#comment-108033 Tim, I hate those ribbons. Why would any sane developer use them? Sadly, Chrome uses them. I think they want to save screen space. I've turned on the normal menus in Windows Media Player, and I wish I could do the same in Chrome. Tim,
I hate those ribbons. Why would any sane developer use them? Sadly, Chrome uses them. I think they want to save screen space. I’ve turned on the normal menus in Windows Media Player, and I wish I could do the same in Chrome.

]]> By: Nick Hodges http://www.itwriting.com/blog/885-developers-will-you-or-have-you-signed-for-ribbon-rights.html/comment-page-1#comment-108027 Nick Hodges Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:40:30 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/885-developers-will-you-or-have-you-signed-for-ribbon-rights.html#comment-108027 Tim -- Good article -- thanks. Note that our Ribbon controls conform to the UI specification, so if you use them in your apps, your apps, too, will conform with the specification. Nick Hodges Delphi Product Manager Embarcadero Tim –

Good article — thanks.

Note that our Ribbon controls conform to the UI specification, so if you use them in your apps, your apps, too, will conform with the specification.

Nick Hodges
Delphi Product Manager
Embarcadero

]]> By: Jim McKeeth http://www.itwriting.com/blog/885-developers-will-you-or-have-you-signed-for-ribbon-rights.html/comment-page-1#comment-107990 Jim McKeeth Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:35:59 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/885-developers-will-you-or-have-you-signed-for-ribbon-rights.html#comment-107990 Thanks for the great analysis of the agreement. You do raise some interesting points. I assume Microsoft claims a patent ( on the Fluid UI and are allows others to use their patented UI if they agree to this license. Thanks for the great analysis of the agreement. You do raise some interesting points. I assume Microsoft claims a patent ( on the Fluid UI and are allows others to use their patented UI if they agree to this license.

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