Comment by badsectoracula
6 years ago
The best Windows UX, except one thing that to this day i never liked: minimized windows in MDI applications having a "button" form instead of an icon form. I always found Windows 3.1's approach of using icons much better. Though i guess they tried to mimic minimizing the top level windows to the taskbar, but a real inner taskbar would work better IMO - mIRC did it best there - and functionally closer to what most applications do nowadays with tabs (but without losing the functionality of also having unmaximized windows, like opening multiple views of an image side by side at different zoom levels in an image editor - or just having multiple documents visible at the same time in general instead of being forced to only view one).
Opera had pretty much the perfect MDI interface - with a tab bar mimicking taskbar, but otherwise all MDI features were still there, like resizable windows.
And hey, MDI is still there, and often still the easiest way to organize things in a desktop Windows app.