{"id":42393,"date":"2003-09-20T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-20T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/09\/20\/when-i-dock-my-taskbar-vertically-why-does-the-word-start-disappear\/"},"modified":"2003-09-20T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-20T19:49:00","slug":"when-i-dock-my-taskbar-vertically-why-does-the-word-start-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20030920-00\/?p=42393","title":{"rendered":"When I dock my taskbar vertically, why does the word &quot;Start&quot; disappear?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>         Because the alternative is even worse.      <\/p>\n<p>         If the taskbar is not wide enough to display the entire word &#8220;Start&#8221;, then the word         &#8220;Start&#8221; is hidden. To get it back, resize the taskbar wider until the word &#8220;Start&#8221;         reappears.      <\/p>\n<p>         This behavior is by design. From a design point of view, a partial word looks very         broken.      <\/p>\n<p>         Also, there is an apocryphal story of clipping text causing embarrassment during localization.         The word &#8220;Start&#8221;, after being translated into some language, and then being clipped,         turned into a rude word. (As an analogy, suppose the text on the Start button said         &#8220;Start button&#8221;, but it got clipped to &#8220;Start butt&#8221;. Now you have to explain to people         why they have to click on the &#8220;Start butt&#8221;.)      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the alternative is even worse. If the taskbar is not wide enough to display the entire word &#8220;Start&#8221;, then the word &#8220;Start&#8221; is hidden. To get it back, resize the taskbar wider until the word &#8220;Start&#8221; reappears. This behavior is by design. From a design point of view, a partial word looks very broken. [&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-42393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Because the alternative is even worse. If the taskbar is not wide enough to display the entire word &#8220;Start&#8221;, then the word &#8220;Start&#8221; is hidden. To get it back, resize the taskbar wider until the word &#8220;Start&#8221; reappears. This behavior is by design. From a design point of view, a partial word looks very broken. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42393","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=42393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42393\/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=42393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}