{"id":38733,"date":"2004-06-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/24\/the-evolution-of-dialog-templates-summary\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T07:00:00","slug":"the-evolution-of-dialog-templates-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040624-00\/?p=38733","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of dialog templates – Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, here’s the tabular version of the evolution of dialog templates<\/a>. It doesn’t contain any new information, but it may give you a little glimpse into how things evolved to see the small changes highlighted against each other. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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As promised, here’s the tabular version of the evolution of dialog templates. It doesn’t contain any new information, but it may give you a little glimpse into how things evolved to see the small changes highlighted against each other. 16-bit classic 32-bit classic 16-bit extended 32-bit extended Header style8-bit item countcoordinates extended style, style16-bit item […]<\/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-38733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

As promised, here’s the tabular version of the evolution of dialog templates. It doesn’t contain any new information, but it may give you a little glimpse into how things evolved to see the small changes highlighted against each other. 16-bit classic 32-bit classic 16-bit extended 32-bit extended Header style8-bit item countcoordinates extended style, style16-bit item […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38733","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=38733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38733\/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=38733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}