[pjc50]

This was grey-downvoted, but it's correct: Win16/32 MessageBox() modals are not resizeable.

Not only that, but window resizing was something that had to be implemented for each window, so lots of applications had unresizeable dialogs and only the "document" area was resizeable.

Even worse, the use of pixel positioning meant that nothing was scaleable. High-DPI display? Choose (a) not being able to read anything or (b) bad linear rescale by a limited number of scales.

I too am a fan of the simplicity and clarity of the old Windows UI, and Microsoft haven't really managed to improve on it, but let's not pretend it doesn't have serious limitations.

[izacus]

Why do you people think that nerdsplaining a few corner cases somehow refutes a change in general situation?

Yes, I remember modals not being resizable, I was there. That was not the point.