{"id":21633,"date":"2008-07-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/07\/14\/why-does-the-install-font-dialog-look-so-old-school\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T10:00:00","slug":"why-does-the-install-font-dialog-look-so-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080714-00\/?p=21633","title":{"rendered":"Why does the &#8220;Install Font&#8221; dialog look so old-school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/pages\/407234.aspx#519249\"> 8<\/a> wonders why the &#8220;Install Font&#8221; dialog looks so old-school. (And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vb6andvista.org\"> Kevin Provance<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/06\/23\/8640473.aspx#8644006\"> demonstrates poor reading skills<\/a> by not only ignoring the paragraph that explains why the suggestion box is closed, but also asking a question that&#8217;s a dup of one already in the suggestion box!)<\/p>\n<p> Because it&#8217;s a really old dialog. <\/p>\n<p> That dialog has been around for probably two decades now. It works just fine, and since it&#8217;s not really a high-traffic dialog, updating it takes lower priority than things that get used more often. Development and testing resources aren&#8217;t infinite, after all. I&#8217;m sure that if you look harder, you can find other old dialog boxes. (My pet ugly old dialog is the Character Map program. It&#8217;s hideous. and I say that even though my boss&#8217;s boss wrote it.) <\/p>\n<p> Besides, people don&#8217;t really add fonts that way much any more. When you install font packs, such as the Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio&nbsp;2005, they just install the fonts as part of their setup process. It&#8217;s all taken care of for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 wonders why the &#8220;Install Font&#8221; dialog looks so old-school. (And Kevin Provance demonstrates poor reading skills by not only ignoring the paragraph that explains why the suggestion box is closed, but also asking a question that&#8217;s a dup of one already in the suggestion box!) Because it&#8217;s a really old dialog. That dialog has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-21633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>8 wonders why the &#8220;Install Font&#8221; dialog looks so old-school. (And Kevin Provance demonstrates poor reading skills by not only ignoring the paragraph that explains why the suggestion box is closed, but also asking a question that&#8217;s a dup of one already in the suggestion box!) Because it&#8217;s a really old dialog. That dialog has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}