{"id":222,"date":"2005-10-21T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/?p=222"},"modified":"2020-08-22T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:40:45","slug":"tie-a-ui-ribbon-round-that-old-menu-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2005\/10\/21\/tie-a-ui-ribbon-round-that-old-menu-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Tie a UI Ribbon &#8217;round that old menu tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Office 12: Now with Bumps&nbsp;TM, thanks to superior Dalek technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you all go crazy adding new funky&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.devcomponents.com\/blog\/PermaLink.aspx?guid=a37d9953-9b84-4c98-a446-0bf9a857094f\">Ribbon UI technology<\/a>&nbsp;to your contact manager application, please think about this: Do you really need it? Do your users really need it? Is your application&#8217;s command tree really that complicated and deep?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I doubt it very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, if this gets developers excited about smart\/thick\/local\/non-web clients again, I&#8217;m all for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<em>Update<\/em>] Well,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/akselsoft.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/ribbon-control-in-office-12.html\">that didn&#8217;t take long<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office 12: Now with Bumps&nbsp;TM, thanks to superior Dalek technology. Before you all go crazy adding new funky&nbsp;Ribbon UI technology&nbsp;to your contact manager application, please think about this: Do you really need it? Do your users really need it? Is your application&#8217;s command tree really that complicated and deep? I doubt it very much. Still, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-interface","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}