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From http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/12/15/9216764.aspx:

"This is another example of how things can get extremely complicated even though the basic idea is very simple: Once you have the simple idea working, everybody finds random special cases that force you to take your simple idea and make it more and more complicated."

Unfortunately, this is way too common.

December 15 5:15:43 PM | Blog it

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Mattwrote:

Isn't this an example of a poorly thought out design with all sorts of hacks having to be added on after?

User messing changing navigation while loading isn't a "special case" but should have been part of the spec.

So the reason windows sucks is that it was poorly specified?

ohflame.

Dec. 26

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