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Tiling WMs

Posted Jan 25, 2005 10:56 UTC (Tue) by cgray4 (guest, #11599)
In reply to: Tiling WMs by wt
Parent article: Innovations in window management (NewsForge)

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.

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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?)