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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:16:20 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Acronym for __M__ultiple __D__ocument __I__nterface; a container window paradigm that keeps all your documents (in a specific program) within the container of a single application window.
(The acronym is normally not expanded.)
-Used in MicrosoftOffice up until version 2000, where they decided to go back to [SDI] and really confuse everyone. (The reason is that Windows XP supports grouping of taskbar items.)
+Used in MicrosoftOffice up until version 2000, where they decided to go back to [SDI] and really confuse everyone. (The reason is that Windows XP supports grouping of taskbar items.) ''Which I actually find a good reason in itself. It's always good to elevate common interface elements to a higher level.'' --AristotlePagaltzis
-See an example,
at [Wikipedia's MDI page|http
://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Multiple_Document_Interface]
.
+See an example at WikiPedia
:Multiple_Document_Interface.
