{"id":33833,"date":"2005-10-10T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/10\/the-difficult-balancing-act-between-customization-and-supportability\/"},"modified":"2005-10-10T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T10:00:09","slug":"the-difficult-balancing-act-between-customization-and-supportability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051010-09\/?p=33833","title":{"rendered":"The difficult balancing act between customization and supportability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/kamvedbrat\/\"> Kam VedBrat<\/a> (from who I shamelessly stole the pictures of thse high-DPI displays in my PDC talk) discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/kamvedbrat\/archive\/2005\/10\/01\/476160.aspx\"> the difficult balancing act between customization and supportability<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/kamvedbrat\/archive\/2005\/10\/02\/476271.aspx\">Part&nbsp;II<\/a>.) Note that decisions on this subject also also impact compatibility: Windows Vista greatly expands the palette of objects covered by the visual style. Any visual styles designed for Windows&nbsp;XP need to be revised in order to cover those new Windows&nbsp;Vista elements. Whose reponsibility would it be to revise them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Kam VedBrat (from who I shamelessly stole the pictures of thse high-DPI displays in my PDC talk) discusses the difficult balancing act between customization and supportability. (Part&nbsp;II.) Note that decisions on this subject also also impact compatibility: Windows Vista greatly expands the palette of objects covered by the visual style. Any visual styles [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-33833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My colleague Kam VedBrat (from who I shamelessly stole the pictures of thse high-DPI displays in my PDC talk) discusses the difficult balancing act between customization and supportability. (Part&nbsp;II.) Note that decisions on this subject also also impact compatibility: Windows Vista greatly expands the palette of objects covered by the visual style. Any visual styles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833","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=33833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/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=33833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}