Seen and heard (but mostly seen) – MSDN’s shiny skinny new look.
Compare and contrast the two looks. Here’s a random page about one of the classes you can use to hammer on XML, the way it was before.
And here's the new low-bandwidth edition of the same page.
Oh hey look – I don’t have to dig through panes and curse quietly to myself when that fucking clownishly giant left pane class navigator slides in and out because I’m using Firefox’s incremental search-as-you-type or target where I wants to scroll.
The garnish disappears quickly and I’m left chewing on the meat of the information that I wanted to get at.
Executive summary – dear designers, please consider servicing the needs of your users rather than merely servicing yourself.
Love, me.
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