{"id":177,"date":"2011-03-16T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/2011\/03\/16\/office-15-per-application-border-colours\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:57:53","slug":"office-15-per-application-border-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/office-15-per-application-border-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 15: per application border colours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Winreview.ru Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/winreview.ru\/\">Winreview.ru<\/a>\u2019s latest <a title=\"\u041f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0432\u0437\u0433\u043b\u044f\u0434 \u043d\u0430 Microsoft Office 15.0.2703.1000\" href=\"http:\/\/winreview.ru\/Microsoft-Office\/979\/Pervij-vzglyad-na-Microsoft-Office-15027031000\">Office 15 screenshots<\/a> reveal application-specific border colours and drop-shadows. Word gets a dark blue border and shadow, Excel gets a green border and shadow, etc.:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Office 15.0.2703.1000 Borders\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Office 15.0.2703.1000 Borders\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Office-15-Borders.png\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft in fact applied for a patent for per-window glass colourisation in late 2005 (\u2018<a title=\"United States Patent Application: Glass appearance window frame colorization\" href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PG01&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=%2220070124692%22.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20070124692&amp;RS=DN\/20070124692\">Glass appearance window frame colorization<\/a>\u2019; <a title=\"I Started Something: Patent reveals Aero Glass reflections was also to change according to time of day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20070602\/aero-glass-time-of-day\/\">discovered by Long Zheng in 2007<\/a>). While there isn\u2019t any glass in the Office 15 windows shown here (despite the DWM being enabled), the idea is similar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Outlook 15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Outlook 15\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/009.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Office 15 and Windows 8 seem to be moving in similar UI directions \u2013 it seems like square corners are in and transparency is out (at least for the \u2018Aero Lite\u2019 theme).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winreview.ru\u2019s latest Office 15 screenshots reveal application-specific border colours and drop-shadows. Word gets a dark blue border and shadow, Excel gets a green border and shadow, etc.: Microsoft in fact applied for a patent for per-window glass colourisation in late 2005 (\u2018Glass appearance window frame colorization\u2019; discovered by Long Zheng in 2007). While there isn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/office-15-per-application-border-colours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Office 15: per application border colours?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[22,23,34,83,89,90,171,174],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office","category-windows","tag-border","tag-border-colour","tag-colour","tag-metro","tag-office-2","tag-office-15","tag-windows-2","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}