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Tiling WMsTiling WMsPosted Jan 25, 2005 10:18 UTC (Tue) by wt (guest, #11793)In reply to: Innovations in window management (NewsForge) by cgray4 Parent article: Innovations in window management (NewsForge)
Didn't early versions of MS Windows have only tiling since windows
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Tiling WMs Posted Jan 25, 2005 10:23 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] And, of course, the thing which Ion and suchlike are visibly modelled on: Emacs.
Tiling WMs Posted Jan 25, 2005 10:56 UTC (Tue) by cgray4 (guest, #11599) [Link] Is that true? I figured that since the things that they stole from -- er "borrowed from" -- at PARC could have overlapping windows, MS would have been able to replicate that.
Tiling WMs Posted Jan 25, 2005 15:19 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] > Is that true?
MSFT Windows 1.01 had modal dialog windows, but AFAIK top-level client windows could not overlap.
http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2001/10/a251001windowsh...
Tiling WMs Posted Jan 25, 2005 19:44 UTC (Tue) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that overlapping, vs tiled, were one of the (more than most people give credit for) innovations that Apple added over and above the original Xerox PARC work.
(Mind, Apple had quite a few of the original PARC developers working for them by that point.)
(Or maybe overlapping was just too hard for Microsoft in round one. Do you really want to try dealing with exposure events on DOS?)
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