In article <shhg50t59qu1pn7a21ffg57vhgqfsngbnq@4ax.com> , Peter Popov 
<pet### [at] vipbg>  wrote:

> Really? Can you please point examples?

Internet Explorer? Outlook Express - I noticed when writing that post on
Windos, actually - the window in which I types was independent.  The same
goes for recent versions of Office.  And M$ Developer Studio can only have
one project open per instance, so it is a hybrid (it also uses windows in a
window).

> Is root-window-less design really considered more efficient and if
> yes, why? Can you point some useability studies that prove the point?
> I am asking from a professional point of view, not only from pure
> curiosity.

The point has much less to do with windows inside windows, but with the
location of the menu bar.  The point being that screen borders are faster to
reach than any other point on screen with a mouse.  Hence a menu bar at the
top of the screen (with menus really get activated when the mouse is in the
topmost pixel row) cannot be missed if you just move the mouse up.  Anyway,
as any usability discussion in these groups in the past lead nowhere other
than showing surprising amounts of ignorance of the validity of objective
studies versus personal perception, I try to avoid any detailed discussion
of the subject.

    Thorsten

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